{"id":363241,"date":"2026-06-16T20:38:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363241\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:38:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:38:04","slug":"2-san-francisco-seniors-found-dead-in-car-on-i-5-near-redding-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363241\/","title":{"rendered":"2 San Francisco seniors found dead in car on I-5 near Redding | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>REDDING, Calif. \u2014 Two San Francisco residents were found dead inside a vehicle stopped on the shoulder of Interstate 5 north of Fawndale Road on Monday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>CHP officers from the Redding Area office came across a 2022 Jeep Compass stopped on the right shoulder of northbound Interstate 5 at approximately 5:46 p.m. on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>According to CHP, the vehicle was running when officers discovered the driver and passenger unresponsive inside. A second officer and medical personnel responded to the scene and provided emergency aid, but both occupants were pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was identified as 84-year-old Judith Sheldon, and the passenger as 86-year-old Wylie Sheldon, both of San Francisco. CHP said next of kin have been notified.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the deaths may be medically related, though the circumstances and exact causes remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The CHP Northern Division Investigative Services Unit is leading the investigation. Authorities said additional information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REDDING, Calif. \u2014 Two San Francisco residents were found dead inside a vehicle stopped on the shoulder of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[972,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,10285,136],"class_list":["post-363241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-local","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-shasta-county","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363241","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=363241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}