{"id":501379,"date":"2026-10-19T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501379\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:40:10","slug":"16-year-old-arrested-for-weekend-double-shooting-in-fresnos-tower-district-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501379\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old arrested for weekend double shooting in Fresno&#8217;s Tower District, chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old is in custody in connection to a double shooting in Fresno&#8217;s Tower District over the weekend.<\/p>\n<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\/10\/1792442410_677_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 19, 2026 8:12PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A 16-year-old is in custody in connection to a double shooting in Fresno&#8217;s Tower District over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto made the announcement during a press conference Monday regarding violence in the nightlife hub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Casto said he was arrested in Fowler and will face an attempted murder charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shooting happened at 12:17 a.m. Sunday, outside the MIA nightclub on Olive Avenue and Broadway Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Video shows a fight between two groups when one man pulled out a gun and fired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The two victims were taken to the hospital and are expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One of the victims was an innocent bystander waiting to get into the nightclub when the gunfire rang out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sunday&#8217;s attack marks the fourth shooting in the Tower District since May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The suspect&#8217;s mugshot will not be released since he is a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old is in custody in connection to a double shooting in Fresno&#8217;s Tower District over the weekend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[194221,194220,112,114,113,6005,294,7406],"class_list":["post-501379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-194221","tag-double-shooting-mia-nightclub","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-suspect-arrested","tag-timely","tag-tower-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501379","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=501379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}