Fresno store stabbing leaves man dead

A stabbing outside a Fresno discount store has turned into a homicide case. The victim, 58-year-old Leonardo Alejo, was found badly wounded on April 28 near Discount General Merchandise at 370 B Street, then died days later at Community Regional Medical Center. Police have already arrested a suspect, but Alejo’s death changes the stakes — what started as a stabbing investigation is now being pushed toward a murder prosecution. (abc30.com) (yourcentralvalley.com) ### What happened? Fresno police say officers were called around 5:40 p.m. on April 28 to the area of B Street and San Benito Street in southwest Fresno for a reported stabbing. When they got there, they found Alejo unresponsive with an apparent stab wound and rushed him to the hospital. (gvwire.com) He died on Tuesday, May 5, from those injuries. ### Was this inside the store? No — that early framing looks off. The clearer reporting says the stabbing happened outside or near the Discount General Merchandise store, not inside the business itself. That matters because it shifts the picture from a random in-store attack to a confrontation in the area around the store, which is how police are treating it. (abc30.com) ### Who was arrested? Police identified the suspect as Jose Moreno. He was arrested after the stabbing, and now detectives are working with the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office to amend the case from the original assault-related charge to murder. Basically, once the victim died, the legal posture changed too. (abc30.com) ### Why does the charge change matter? Because homicide cases are built differently. A stabbing case with a surviving victim can lead to charges tied to assault or attempted murder, but a death gives prosecutors a different path and usually raises both the potential penalties and the scrutiny on evidence. (abc30.com) The catch is that police still have to tie the death directly to the attack and make sure the timeline, witnesses, and medical findings all line up. ### Who was Leonardo Alejo? The public details are still thin. Police have identified him only as a 58-year-old Fresno man. That usually means investigators are focused first on the charging process and the facts of the attack, not on releasing a longer account of the victim’s background. (yourcentralvalley.com) ### How big a deal is this for Fresno? Police told local outlets this is Fresno’s 10th homicide of 2026. That gives the case extra weight beyond one arrest and one victim — it feeds into the city’s year-to-date homicide count and puts more pressure on detectives and prosecutors to close the case cleanly. (yourcentralvalley.com) ### What’s still unclear? A lot. Police have not publicly laid out what led to the stabbing, whether Alejo and Moreno knew each other, or whether surveillance or eyewitness evidence played the key role in the arrest. Those missing details are normal this early, but they’re also the part that will determine how strong the murder case really is. (abc30.com) ### What’s the bottom line? A man wounded near a southwest Fresno store on April 28 has now died, and that death has turned the case into a homicide. The main thing that changed this week is simple but serious — Fresno police are no longer just investigating a stabbing. They’re trying to turn it into a murder case against Jose Moreno. (gvwire.com) (abc30.com) (yourcentralvalley.com)