{"id":451629,"date":"2026-09-03T01:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451629\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T01:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:08:36","slug":"sacramento-man-suspected-of-killing-security-guard-at-los-banos-fairgrounds-surrenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451629\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento man suspected of killing security guard at Los Banos fairgrounds surrenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 21-year-old Sacramento man suspected of fatally shooting a security guard at the Los Banos Fairgrounds surrendered Wednesday morning to the Sacramento County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gabriel Angel Salas was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on suspicion of murder in the Aug. 29 killing of Kody Pena, 31, according to the Merced County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The surrender followed an investigation that involved multiple Sacramento-area law enforcement agencies, including West Sacramento police and the Yolo Regional SWAT Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Our investigators worked closely with the West Sacramento Police Department and Yolo Regional SWAT Team during this investigation,&#8221; the Merced County Sheriff&#8217;s Office posted Wednesday on Facebook. &#8220;Early this morning, Salas turned himself in to the Sacramento County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and was booked into the Sacramento County Jail for murder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pena was working as a security guard for a private event at the Los Banos Fairgrounds when an altercation reportedly led to the shooting late Aug. 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Merced County sheriff&#8217;s deputies found Pena suffering from several gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Merced County Sheriff&#8217;s Office was working to extradite Salas from Sacramento County. The agency thanked the public for providing information and the Sacramento County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, West Sacramento Police Department and Yolo County Sheriff&#8217;s Office for assisting with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A GoFundMe page titled &#8220;<a data-ylk=\"slk:Support Kody&#039;s Family and Children;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:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-kodys-family-children?attribution_id=sl:896ea471-cd7e-4463-9d88-752637c0c5eb&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1788357140&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp30-treatment-8&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Support Kody&#8217;s Family and Children<\/a>&#8221; described Pena as a father of three young children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Kody was a hardworking man, a loyal friend, and someone who never hesitated to show up when others needed him,&#8221; the page said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old Sacramento man suspected of fatally shooting a security guard at the Los Banos Fairgrounds surrendered Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[94184,178419,178527,178420,144636,121,357,123,122,177833,2958,112881,178526],"class_list":["post-451629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-21-year-old","tag-gabriel-angel-salas","tag-kody","tag-kody-pena","tag-pena","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-salas","tag-west-sacramento","tag-west-sacramento-police-department","tag-yolo-regional-swat-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451629","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=451629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}