{"id":374210,"date":"2026-06-25T08:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374210\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:31:19","slug":"victim-identified-after-fatal-fresno-apartment-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374210\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim identified after fatal Fresno apartment shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrested a 13-year-old following a fatal shooting Tuesday night at an apartment complex in northwest Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>In an update Wednesday, police said a gunshot was heard around 8 p.m. near Reflections Apartment Complex on Barstow and Brawley avenues. Officers responded and initially were unable to find evidence of a shooting until the department was notified of a victim inside the complex, some 20 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found the victim inside an apartment.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Community Regional Medical Center and later died, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the victim as 19-year-old Edgar Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>The department also confirmed the arrest of the younger teen and said he is responsible for the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who is not being identified because of their age, was booked into the Juvenile Justice Campus on suspicion of manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>The department clarified that investigation was not being treated as a homicide, and that the killing will not be counted toward the city\u2019s homicide totals for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/EDGAR HERNANDEZ DMV MUG_fitted.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"676\" title=\"EDGAR HERNANDEZ DMV MUG_fitted.png\" alt=\"Edgar Hernandez, 19 was identified as the victim of a fatal shooing at an apartment complex in Fresno on June 23, 2026.\"\/>                                                                                    Edgar Hernandez, 19 was identified as the victim of a fatal shooing at an apartment complex in Fresno on June 23, 2026.                                                                                                                                                                        FRESNO POLICE DEPARTMENT<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":"Police arrested a 13-year-old following a fatal shooting Tuesday night at an apartment complex in northwest Fresno. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-374210","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\/374210","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=374210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}