{"id":537924,"date":"2026-03-22T03:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537924\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:58:09","slug":"authorities-investigating-suspected-homicide-in-lafayette-35-year-old-man-suspect-from-chico-california-is-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537924\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities investigating suspected homicide in Lafayette; 35-year-old man, suspect from Chico, California is in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LAFAYETTE, Calif.  (KGO) &#8212; The Contra Costa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and Lafayette Police Department are investigating a homicide in Lafayette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The homicide happened Saturday at Westminster Place and was reported around 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When officers arrived, they found a man who was deceased. He is not being identified at this time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/18748284_032126-kgo-lafayette-homicide-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The road is a small residential street with a cul-de-sac, just inside the eastern Lafayette city limits and south of state Highway 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Saturday evening, police said a 35-year-old man from Chico was taken in for questioning, and was later arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Detectives from the Contra Costa Sheriff&#8217;s Office homicide unit and the crime lab responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Anyone with any information on this incident is asked to contact the Investigation Division at (925) 313-2600 or through Sheriff&#8217;s Office dispatch at (925) 646-2441.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">ABC7&#8217;s Anser Hassan will have the latest on ABC7 Eyewitness News Saturday at 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bay City News contributed to this report <\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAFAYETTE, Calif. (KGO) &#8212; The Contra Costa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and Lafayette Police Department are investigating a homicide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[241028,4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-537924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-241028","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}