Man dies after stabbing in central Fresno, police investigate homicide

A late-night disturbance at Abby and Divisadero ended with 42-year-old Kyle Beachy dead and Fresno police treating the case as the city’s 12th homicide of 2026. Officers found Beachy in the roadway with a stab wound to the upper body and worked with EMS on life-saving measures before he was taken to Community Regional Medical Center, where he died.

The stabbing was dispatched at 2:01 a.m. Wednesday, June 3, after a report of someone lying in the street in central Fresno. Police said the injury came after some kind of disturbance involving multiple people, but they have not said what led up to the violence, how many people were involved or whether Beachy knew anyone present.

Homicide detectives J. Baroni and R. Gallegos began canvassing the neighborhood immediately, trying to find witnesses and reconstruct the moments before Beachy was found in the road. As of the latest reports, investigators had not identified a suspect, and they were still working to determine each person’s role in the disturbance that turned deadly near the busy Abby and Divisadero intersection.

For residents and businesses near central Fresno’s core, the unanswered questions are the ones that matter most: whether police had responded to prior calls in the area, whether this was a random confrontation or part of an ongoing dispute, and whether anyone linked to the scene remains at large. Police have not released those details, but they have asked anyone with information to contact the homicide detectives or leave an anonymous tip through Crime Stoppers at (559) 498-STOP (7867).

The killing lands against a broader backdrop of local violence statistics that have shifted sharply over the past year. Fresno police said the city recorded 22 homicides in all of 2025, the lowest total in 51 years, after 30 homicides in 2024. By early June, Beachy’s death had already pushed 2026 to 12 homicides, a pace that keeps pressure on investigators and raises fresh concern in neighborhoods that have seen repeated overnight emergency calls.

Abby and Divisadero is not unfamiliar to homicide detectives. ABC30 previously reported a stabbing in the same area in 2024, when a victim walked into Community Regional Medical Center with an upper-body injury as officers worked to gather information about what happened. Police have not said the earlier case is connected to Beachy’s death, but the repeat violence is likely to sharpen scrutiny of the block and the response around it.

The Fresno Police Department covers all 130 square miles of the city through five district stations, a footprint that underscores how quickly a single street corner can become a citywide concern when a stabbing turns fatal. For now, central Fresno is left with a homicide scene, a dead man, and a case that still depends on witnesses coming forward.