{"id":420073,"date":"2026-07-31T22:51:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420073\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T22:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:51:03","slug":"police-release-bodycam-video-of-deadly-shooting-of-suspect-in-southeast-fresno-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420073\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Release Bodycam Video of Deadly Shooting of Suspect in Southeast Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4QJqO4BS-aY&amp;t=622s\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bodycam footage has been released<\/a>\u00a0of a shooting involving police officers that left a suspect dead in southeast Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shooting happened on June 5 at a home on 11th Street and Burns Avenue regarding a disturbance involving the family\u2019s son, who had arrived armed with a gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In the video, you can hear the mother of Ricardo Leon tell dispatchers that she had recently filed a restraining order but it hadn\u2019t been processed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The woman told police that Leon was in the backyard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One of the officers noticed he had a gun and immediately told him to drop it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Leon can be heard on the officer\u2019s bodycam footage saying that he wanted them to hurt him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto said officers attempted to de-escalate the situation before gunfire erupted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Shots then rang out between Leon and another officer who was on the other side of the house, away from the two officers trying to de-escalate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Leon was ultimately shot and declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also noted that this was the first shooting this year involving the discharge of a Fresno police officer\u2019s firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the report by KMJ\u2019s Liz Kern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0Bodycam footage has been released\u00a0of a shooting involving police officers that left a suspect dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-420073","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\/420073","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=420073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}