{"id":495262,"date":"2026-10-14T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495262\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:36:10","slug":"ice-agent-threw-man-into-side-of-a-car-attacked-daughter-d-a-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495262\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE agent threw man into side of a car, attacked daughter, D.A. says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An ICE officer is facing a slew of felony charges after allegedly assaulting a 72-year-old homeowner and the man\u2019s daughter after they found him sleeping on their front lawn.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno County district attorney\u2019s office announced Tuesday that David Gonzalez III was being charged with assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, elder abuse, vandalism and battery.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Gonzalez faces up to four years and eight months in custody, according to the D.A.\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez, 32, is from McAllen, Texas. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not commented so far on why he was in Fresno. But the Central Valley has in recent weeks noticed an uptick in ICE arrests.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place around 3 a.m. Oct. 9, when the Fresno Police Department received several reports of a gunshot being fired near East Dudley Avenue and North Broadway Street in Fresno\u2019s Tower District, an area billed as a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visitcalifornia.com\/experience\/fresnos-tower-district\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">nightlife destination<\/a>. Officers arrived and found Gonzalez in handcuffs with a gunshot wound to his midsection, the department said in a statement last week.<\/p>\n<p>According to their statement, an unnamed woman arrived home to find Gonzalez \u2014 an agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement \u2014 sleeping on her front lawn. The woman contacted her 72-year-old father, who came out of the house to remove Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez woke up and appeared \u201cintoxicated and agitated,\u201d according to the statement. He allegedly attacked the homeowner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the homeowner went outside to ask Gonzalez to leave, Gonzalez assaulted him, causing him to fall to the ground and sustain visible injuries,\u201d the district attorney\u2019s office said in a news release. Gonzalez allegedly threw the victim into a neighbor\u2019s parked vehicle, according to the D.A., \u201ccausing significant damage to the side of the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman tried to intervene as her father was being assaulted, and Gonzalez also allegedly attacked her, authorities said. Her father, fearing for the safety of himself and his daughter, took out a gun and fired one shot at Gonzalez, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s boyfriend, an off-duty police officer, was also there at the time and placed Gonzalez in handcuffs, police said<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez was off-duty and alone at the time of the incident, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The district attorney\u2019s office said Gonzalez remained in the hospital, where he is in custody receiving medical treatment. The bail amount for the charges filed is $52,000. His arraignment is scheduled for Wednesday morning at Fresno County Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear based on court records whether Gonzalez had legal representation. The D.A.\u2019s office said Tuesday it did not have that information. The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ICE officer is facing a slew of felony charges after allegedly assaulting a 72-year-old homeowner and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,62595,8,283,8901,9342,6314,34254,5745,11002,111598,15721,4456,346,236,1435,191571],"class_list":["post-495262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-homeowner","tag-california-news","tag-car","tag-custody","tag-daughter","tag-father","tag-fresno-county-district-attorney","tag-gonzalez","tag-gunshot","tag-handcuff","tag-ice-agent","tag-incident","tag-office","tag-police","tag-side","tag-unnamed-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495262","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=495262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}