{"id":358721,"date":"2026-06-13T01:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358721\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T01:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:52:12","slug":"alleged-fresno-vandal-attacks-car-with-bat-in-tower-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358721\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Fresno vandal attacks car with bat in Tower District"},"content":{"rendered":"

An unidentified person is shown in a video attacking a vehicle after being confronted over graffiti, according to a video and social post from a Fresno city councilmember.<\/p>\n

Councilmember Miguel Arias shared a video Thursday that showed a man attacking a vehicle with a baseball bat in the Tower District.<\/p>\n

Arias said the attack had been recorded earlier that day. The person recording was sitting inside the vehicle and had just confronted the bat-wielding man for allegedly graffitiing the area, Arias said.<\/p>\n

The car\u2019s GPS is visible at one point in the video and appears to have been parked near Olive and Palm avenues during the incident, according to what\u2019s visible in the video.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf anyone can help identify him, it would be greatly appreciated. We need to hold him accountable for his actions,\u201d Arias wrote, asking community members to message him with any information.<\/p>\n

Fresno police Sgt. Diana Trueba Vega said authorities are investigating the vandalism.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published June 12, 2026 at 5:19 PM.<\/p>\n


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The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n

Nick Fenley is a reporter covering education, lawsuits, breaking news and more for The Fresno Bee. He\u2019s originally from the Imperial Valley and has been with The Bee since 2025.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unidentified person is shown in a video attacking a vehicle after being confronted over graffiti, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-358721","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\/358721","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=358721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}