{"id":455891,"date":"2026-09-07T02:12:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/455891\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T02:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:12:55","slug":"update-toddler-injured-in-shooting-at-fresno-home-suspect-in-custody-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/455891\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Toddler injured in shooting at Fresno home. Suspect in custody, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fresno Police Department provided an update Sunday after a <a data-ylk=\"slk:Saturday night shooting;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.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article317146549.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday night shooting<\/a> sent two people, including a toddler, to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers responded to a two-round ShotSpotter activation after receiving an update that two shooting victims from the 3100 block of East Washington Avenue were being taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Family members took the victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the toddler was struck once in the lower leg and suffered a non-life-threatening injury. The other victim was struck once in the lower body and remained in critical but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers also located a third person suffering from blunt-force injuries to his face and head. Detectives determined that the man was the alleged shooting suspect, who had argued with the victim before shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police initially reported that the third person had been struck by gunfire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several other people attending the birthday party were not struck by gunfire but attempted to take the gun away from the suspect, identified by police as 39-year-old Paul Benefield of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Benefield is in custody and is being treated for his injuries at a hospital. Police said he will be charged with assault with a deadly weapon and firearm-related offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information can remain anonymous by contacting Crime Stoppers at 559-498-7867 or Fresno police at 559-621-7000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fresno Police Department provided an update Sunday after a Saturday night shooting sent two people, including a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[11942,112,114,113,179936,5192,179935],"class_list":["post-455891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-crime-stoppers","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-paul-benefield","tag-shotspotter","tag-the-fresno-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455891","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=455891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}