{"id":432654,"date":"2026-08-14T09:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432654\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:20:17","slug":"man-arrested-in-connection-to-fresno-tower-district-shooting-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432654\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in connection to Fresno Tower District shooting, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man has been arrested in connection with a weekend Tower District shooting that left another man injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno Police arrested 43-year-old Troy Franklin as the shooting suspect on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say shots rang out during a fight between Franklin and a group of people celebrating the victim&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The group was leaving the area of Olive and Lucerene avenues when Franklin allegedly opened fire, grazing the victim&#8217;s ankle. Officers say a person in the victim&#8217;s group then fired shots toward Franklin in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Detectives, with the help of the city&#8217;s Flock automated license plate readers, later identified Franklin as the suspect and obtained a warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Around 10 a.m. Thursday, Franklin was spotted leaving a business and getting into a vehicle near First and Nees avenues. As detectives moved in to make an arrest, Franklin allegedly rammed an undercover detective&#8217;s vehicle before driving away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Fresno Police helicopter followed Franklin to the area of Barstow and Millbrook avenues, where Franklin hit a parked car. He was arrested shortly after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Franklin has been booked into the Fresno County Jail for charges related to Sunday&#8217;s shooting, as well as assault on a police officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man injured in Sunday&#8217;s shooting is expected to be okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested in connection with a weekend Tower District shooting that left another man injured.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,3695,171801],"class_list":["post-432654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police","tag-troy-franklin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432654","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=432654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}