{"id":431083,"date":"2026-08-12T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431083\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:38:09","slug":"california-arrests-made-in-connection-to-deadly-east-las-vegas-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431083\/","title":{"rendered":"California Arrests Made in Connection to Deadly East Las Vegas Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAS VEGAS (<a href=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\">FOX5<\/a>) \u2014 Two people have been arrested in California following a shooting that left one person dead in east Las Vegas back in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say one of the suspects, identified as 44-year-old April Fontenot, was arrested by the Los Angeles Sheriff\u2019s Department on Friday, August 7 while the second suspect, identified as 19-year-old Jeremiah Fontenot, was arrested on Monday, August 10 by the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MORE ON FOX5 | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/08\/12\/roof-collapse-reported-business-near-flamingo-jones\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/08\/12\/roof-collapse-reported-business-near-flamingo-jones\/\">3 injured after partial roof collapse reported at business near Flamingo, Jones<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This comes following a shooting investigation that left a man dead at an apartment complex <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/06\/24\/las-vegas-police-investigating-homicide-near-craig-las-vegas-boulevard\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/06\/24\/las-vegas-police-investigating-homicide-near-craig-las-vegas-boulevard\/\">on June 23<\/a>. Authorities say the man was talking to a friend when he was shot several times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No other information was provided at the time by officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both suspects were booked into the Century Regional Detention Facility pending extradition back to Las Vegas. Once they are extradited, they will be booked for open murder with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit murder.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KVVU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (FOX5) \u2014 Two people have been arrested in California following a shooting that left one person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,14437,171322],"class_list":["post-431083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-delta-air-lines","tag-delta-plane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431083","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=431083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}