{"id":367980,"date":"2026-06-20T02:53:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367980\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T02:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:53:42","slug":"man-stabbed-after-allegedly-attacking-65-year-old-with-wrench-near-fresno-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367980\/","title":{"rendered":"Man stabbed after allegedly attacking 65-year-old with wrench near Fresno State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was stabbed Thursday morning after allegedly attacking a 65-year-old man with a wrench near Valley Children\u2019s Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers responded to a reported altercation at 8:48 a.m. in the 1300 block of San Ramon Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When they arrived, they contacted the two men involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Fresno Police Sgt. Diana Trueba Vega, the victim told officers that a man armed with a wrench and acting erratically \u2014 possibly while under the influence \u2014 approached him and began swinging the tool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect allegedly struck the victim, who uses a walker, multiple times in the hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trueba Vega said the victim used his walker to defend himself before pulling out a knife he kept in the walker and stabbing the suspect in the arm and chest in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect fled the scene, but officers located and arrested him a short distance away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was taken to a hospital for treatment of his injuries and is listed in stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect will be booked into the Fresno County Jail on an assault charge and an outstanding warrant, according to Trueba Vega.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was stabbed Thursday morning after allegedly attacking a 65-year-old man with a wrench near Valley Children\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[117275,112,114,113,3695,149233,121240,138831],"class_list":["post-367980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-diana-trueba-vega","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police","tag-reported-altercation","tag-trueba-vega","tag-wrench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367980","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=367980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}