Fresno police investigate downtown killing as city's 12th homicide of 2026

Fresno police are investigating the death of 42-year-old Kyle Beachy as the city’s 12th homicide of 2026 after officers found him injured in the roadway near Divisadero and Abby streets in downtown Fresno.

Dispatchers sent officers to the area at 2:01 a.m. Wednesday, June 3, after a report of a person lying in the street. When officers arrived, they found Beachy with upper-body injuries. He was taken to Community Regional Medical Center, where he later died.

Detectives said the case followed a disturbance involving multiple people, a detail that points to a confrontation that may have escalated quickly in a busy downtown corridor. Investigators are still canvassing the neighborhood and looking for witnesses as they try to reconstruct who was present, what led to the violence and whether other evidence can clarify how Beachy was injured.

The death adds another data point to Fresno’s public-safety picture in 2026 and raises fresh questions about whether violence is clustering downtown. Beachy’s killing came in an area that has drawn attention before, including a separate stabbing at the Abby and Divisadero bus stop in January 2025. The repeated appearance of the intersection in violent-incident reports has made it a familiar reference point for residents and workers who pass through downtown on foot, by bus or by car.

The homicide count also comes against the backdrop of 22 homicides in Fresno in 2025, a figure city residents are likely to weigh as they watch whether 2026 trends higher or settles back. For downtown, the immediate impact is more personal: a dead man in the roadway, a neighborhood under renewed scrutiny, and another crime scene that police must piece together street by street.

Fresno police are asking anyone with information to contact homicide detectives J. Baroni or R. Gallegos as the investigation continues.