{"id":449407,"date":"2026-09-01T01:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449407\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T01:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:10:24","slug":"armed-sacramento-man-wanted-for-merced-county-murder-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449407\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Sacramento man wanted for Merced County murder, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(FOX40.COM) \u2014\u00a0Merced County deputies are searching for a Sacramento man suspected of shooting and killing a security guard over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Merced County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said deputies responded to reports of a shooting at a private event around 11:12 p.m. on Saturday at the Los Ba\u00f1os Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities arrived to find 31-year-old security guard Kody Pena with multiple gunshot wounds and pronounced him dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MCSO identified the suspect as 21-year-old Gabriel Angel Salas from Sacramento. Deputies said that he is wanted for murder and believed to be in the West Sacramento area.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"May be an image of text that says 'SHERIF CORONER SHERIFF SHERIFFSOFFICE ERIFF OFFICE OEFICE NERCEDCO GABRIEL ANGEL SALAS 21 YEARS OLD HISPANIC MALE EYES: HAZEL HEIGHT: 5'10 WEIGHT: MEDIUM BUILD LONG BLACK HAIR ARMED &amp; DANGEROUS SUSPECT WANTED FOR MURDER MERC MERCED.COUNTYSHERIFFSOFFICE OFFICE'\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"698\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ktxl_articles_604\/21db895410101b7f21c9bf6b04623140.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(IMAGE: Merced County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Salas is described as being 5 feet 10 inches, of medium build, with hazel eyes and long black hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities believe he is armed and dangerous. Anyone who sees Salas is asked not to approach him and to call 911.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to contact the Merced Detectives Bureau at 209-385-7472 or leave an anonymous tip at 209-385-7547 or SheriffTips@countyofmerced.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/fox40.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(FOX40.COM) \u2014\u00a0Merced County deputies are searching for a Sacramento man suspected of shooting and killing a security guard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[177834,121,123,122,177833],"class_list":["post-449407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-merced-county-sheriffs","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-salas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449407","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=449407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}