{"id":344005,"date":"2026-06-03T03:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344005\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T03:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:59:03","slug":"gofundme-launched-as-family-mourns-sole-provider-in-memorial-day-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344005\/","title":{"rendered":"GoFundMe launched as family mourns sole provider in Memorial Day accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A GoFundMe was launched for 42-year-old Richard Cortes, who died from a motorcycle accident on Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>Cortes was riding his motorcycle in the area of Olive and Rowell when he was hit by a car.<\/p>\n<p>He was quickly transferred to Community Regional Medical Center and was listed in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The family has informed FOX26 that he succumbed to his injuries on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Cortes was the sole provider for his family as a maintenance technician for CV Homes.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife, 6 children, and 5 grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/motorcyclist-hospitalized-after-being-hit-by-a-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Motorcyclist hospitalized after being hit by car in Fresno<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The family will host a Justice for Richard Candlelight Vigil on May 31st at Olive and Rowell.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to support the family facing unexpected hospital and funeral expenses, you can visit their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-richard-cortes-funeral-family?attribution_id=sl%3A572963b5-8c2a-4b7b-ad15-6581b427d79e&amp;ts=1780191628808&amp;utm_campaign=natman_today_topbar_android&amp;utm_content=amp14_t2&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GoFundMe<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A GoFundMe was launched for 42-year-old Richard Cortes, who died from a motorcycle accident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-344005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}