{"id":351964,"date":"2026-06-08T19:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351964\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:28:18","slug":"the-fresno-county-sheriff-coroners-office-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351964\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fresno County Sheriff-Coroner&#8217;s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputies have booked 21 year old Freeman Hunter III of Fresno into the Fresno County Jail on a charge of murder. \u00a0His bail is set at $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before midnight on Saturday, June 6th, sheriff\u2019s dispatchers received a call of a stabbing taking place. \u00a0Deputies and firefighters responded to a home located near the intersection of Shaw and Grantland Avenues in Fresno. \u00a0Deputies contacted the suspect, Freeman Hunter III, and immediately took him into custody. \u00a0Meanwhile, other deputies and firefighters located the injured victim and performed CPR on him. \u00a0However, he ultimately died at the scene. \u00a0He has been identified as 79 year old Freeman Hunter Jr., the father of the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The motive for this homicide has not yet been established. \u00a0This remains an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>If you have additional information about this case, please report it by contacting Sheriff\u2019s Detective Jose Leon at 559-600-8221. You may also contact Valley Crime Stoppers at 559-498-7867 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valleycrimestoppers.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.valleycrimestoppers.org<\/a>\u00a0 You will remain anonymous and may be eligible for a cash reward. Reference case #26-6646.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Freeman Hunter III.jpg\" alt=\"Freeman Hunter III\" width=\"436\" height=\"500\" loading=\"lazy\" data-path=\"local-images:\/2026\/06\/Freeman Hunter III.jpg\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nFreeman Hunter III&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies have booked 21 year old Freeman Hunter III of Fresno into the Fresno County Jail on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-351964","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\/351964","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=351964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}