{"id":438772,"date":"2026-08-20T22:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438772\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:40:11","slug":"county-employee-hospitalized-after-stabbing-in-courthouse-park-in-downtown-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438772\/","title":{"rendered":"County employee hospitalized after stabbing in Courthouse Park in downtown Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A county employee, an attorney, was stabbed in Courthouse Park near the Law Enforcement Memorial on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The male suspect ran from the scene but was captured a couple of blocks away by Fresno County sheriff&#8217;s deputies. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The male suspect ran from the scene but was captured a couple of blocks away by Fresno County sheriff's deputies. (Photo: FOX26 Photojournalist Bert Montelongo)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/4032\/800\/0x378\/80\/7caf9735-99d9-43cd-97a7-f8678ba94d76-Image8.jfif\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The male suspect ran from the scene but was captured a couple of blocks away by Fresno County sheriff&#8217;s deputies. (Photo: FOX26 Photojournalist Bert Montelongo)<\/p>\n<p>Deputies say they had to tase the suspect to take him into custody. He was taken to the hospital to be checked out.<\/p>\n<p>The male victim was taken to the hospital and was awake and breathing.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/five-stabbed-at-thunder-valley-casino-in-placer-county-suspect-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Five stabbed at Thunder Valley Casino in Placer County, suspect arrested<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are investigating whether this was a targeted or random attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A county employee, an attorney, was stabbed in Courthouse Park near the Law Enforcement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-438772","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\/438772","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=438772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}