{"id":449969,"date":"2026-09-01T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449969\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:48:08","slug":"officer-involved-shooting-in-downtown-fresno-parolee-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449969\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer-involved shooting in Downtown Fresno, parolee in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Part of Downtown Fresno is blocked early Tuesday morning after an officer-involved shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Police Department says officers first responded to a shot-spotter call just before 3 AM near Huntington Boulevard and Orchard Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they saw a man and started to walk up to him.<\/p>\n<p>The man ran away as officer approached and began shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Two officers fired back, hitting the man.<\/p>\n<p>The man is in his 40s and is on parole with a long criminal history and is known to officers.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the hospital for surgery and is currently in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Orchard Avenue between R St and the HWY 41 overpass will be closed for several hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Part of Downtown Fresno is blocked early Tuesday morning after an officer-involved shooting. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-449969","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\/449969","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=449969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}