{"id":8613,"date":"2025-10-16T22:24:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/8613\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:24:28","slug":"mother-and-son-found-dead-in-fowler-home-identified-being-investigated-as-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/8613\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother and son found dead in Fowler home identified, being investigated as murder-suicide"},"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\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, October 16, 2025 9:47PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Man, woman, multiple animals found dead inside Fowler home, chief says\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A man, a woman and multiple animals have been found dead inside a Fowler home on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FOWLER, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The man and woman found dead inside a Fowler home have been identified as 78-year-old Cheryl Hanoian and her son, 60-year-old James McFarland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: The video above is from a previous broadcast and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities say they are now investigating the incident as a murder-suicide, with McFarland being the suspect and Hanoian being the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fowler Police Chief Greg Gularte says officers received a call for an assault with a deadly weapon at a home on Citrus and South avenues around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Gularte says the call came from a woman who claimed a family member told her he &#8220;had shot mom, was going to shoot the dogs and shoot myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When authorities got inside the home, they found the two dead along with multiple dead animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Gularte says this was an isolated incident, and the investigation is now being handled by the Fresno County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, October 16, 2025 9:47PM A man, a woman and multiple animals have been found dead inside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8512,8511,7539,112,114,113,8510,8509,294],"class_list":["post-8613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-8512","tag-citrus-south-avenues","tag-fowler","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-mother-killed","tag-murder-suicide","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613","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=8613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}