{"id":452737,"date":"2026-09-04T00:40:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452737\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T00:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:40:46","slug":"man-sentenced-to-11-years-in-prison-in-death-of-unhoused-fresno-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452737\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 11 years in prison in death of unhoused Fresno man"},"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\/1788482446_337_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, September 3, 2026 11:50PM<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Mondragon plead no contest and was sentenced Wednesday morning to 11 years in prison for shooting and killing 49-year-old Ray Stewart in East Central Fresno in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Two men with the same last name plead no contest in separate Fresno County cases, prompting a correction to a story Action News aired on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Francisco Mondragon pleaded no contest and was sentenced Wednesday morning to 11 years in prison. He was accused of shooting and killing 49-year-old Ray Stewart in East Central Fresno in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities said the homicide occurred at a homeless encampment near Harvey and Winery avenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a separate case previously covered by Action News, Adrian Mondragon was charged with battery causing serious bodily injury for punching a man in 2024.  He ultimately pleaded no contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to officials, Adrian Mondragon punched 52-year-old John Chandler in the face because he was owed $40. Chandler was taken to a hospital and died two days later from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators said Chandler was unhoused and living at Bicentennial Park near Sunnyside and Sierra avenues in Clovis at the time of the crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Adrian Mondragon served his sentence and was released from custody earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The two cases involved different defendants and separate incidents, despite the shared last name.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, September 3, 2026 11:50PM Francisco Mondragon plead no contest and was sentenced Wednesday morning to 11 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[178880,112,114,113,1081],"class_list":["post-452737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-178880","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-no-ta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452737","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=452737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}