{"id":450029,"date":"2026-09-01T15:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450029\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T15:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:24:12","slug":"suspect-shot-multiple-times-by-fresno-police-officers-chief-casto-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450029\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect shot multiple times by Fresno police officers, Chief Casto says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788276252_394_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, September 1, 2026 1:18PM<\/p>\n<p>A suspect has been hospitalized after being shot by officers in Fresno early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A suspect has been hospitalized after being shot by police officers in Fresno early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police were initially called out to a ShotSpotter call at a park on Orchard and Huntington before 3 am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Two officers found the suspect and tried to contact him, but Chief Mindy Casto said the suspect ran off while armed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Casto said the suspect then shot at officers, which led to them firing back and shooting him multiple times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He was rushed to Community Regional Medical Center and is in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Chief Casto said they have not found a victim from the initial ShotSpotter call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No officers were injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is the second shooting involving Fresno police officers this year.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, September 1, 2026 1:18PM A suspect has been hospitalized after being shot by officers in Fresno early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[178079,112,114,113,167565,91702,178078,91703,294],"class_list":["post-450029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-178079","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-no-badge","tag-officer-shooting","tag-orchard-and-huntington","tag-suspect-shot","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450029","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=450029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}