{"id":351853,"date":"2026-06-08T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351853\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:56:09","slug":"79-year-old-identified-in-deadly-fresno-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351853\/","title":{"rendered":"79-year-old identified in deadly Fresno stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 79-year-old man was stabbed to death over the weekend and his son has been arrested on suspicion of murder, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FresnoSheriff\/posts\/pfbid024KLPn5WrkujHdMStgRyuPbzxCpBVB2nFt5DNAyChGcHtDJPGLgQe6UY4rnxAdDVvl\">Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> said in an update Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to a report of a stabbing at a home near Shaw and Grantland avenues late Saturday just before midnight. Deputies and firefighters found the man, and performed CPR, before he ultimately died. At the same time, a suspect was contacted and immediately taken into custody, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the sheriff\u2019s office identified the victim as Freeman Hunter Jr. and the suspect as his son, 21-year-old Freeman Hunter III.<\/p>\n<p>The younger Hunter was booked into Fresno County Jail, with bail set at $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>A motive for the killing has yet to be established, and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call the Sheriff\u2019s Office at 559-600-8221 with case reference #26-6646. Anonymous tips can be made through Valley Crime Stoppers online or at 559-498-7867.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Freeman Hunter III (USE).jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"1374\" title=\"Freeman Hunter III (USE).jpg\" alt=\"Freeman Hunter III was arrested on suspicion of murder.\"\/>                                                                                    Freeman Hunter III was arrested on suspicion of murder.                                                                                                                                                                        FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFF\u2019S OFFICE<br \/>\n        Related Stories from  Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/218451290\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Tehee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Joshua Tehee covers breaking news for The Fresno Bee, writing on a wide range of topics from police, politics and weather, to arts and entertainment in the Central Valley.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 79-year-old man was stabbed to death over the weekend and his son has been arrested on suspicion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-351853","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\/351853","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=351853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}