{"id":108735,"date":"2025-01-30T00:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T00:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/man-wanted-for-killing-woman-kidnapping-their-2-daughters-may-have-fled-to-mexico-sheriff\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T00:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T00:04:16","slug":"man-wanted-for-killing-woman-kidnapping-their-2-daughters-may-have-fled-to-mexico-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/man-wanted-for-killing-woman-kidnapping-their-2-daughters-may-have-fled-to-mexico-sheriff\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wanted for killing woman, kidnapping their 2 daughters may have fled to Mexico: Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-29\/News_JonathanMaldonado_12925.png\" alt><figcaption>Kings County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">(CALIFORNIA) &#8212; Authorities in California are searching for a man who allegedly gunned down his daughters&#8217; mother and kidnapped the two young girls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The suspect, 23-year-old Jonathan Alexis Maldonado-Cruz, may have fled to Mexico, the Kings County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The case began Tuesday afternoon when deputies responded to a welfare check in Hanford, about 30 miles south of Fresno, and found a woman shot dead, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Authorities believe Maldonado-Cruz fled the home around 1 a.m. Tuesday with the two daughters he shares with the victim: 3-year-old Arya Maldonado and 2-year-old Alana Maldonado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">An Amber Alert has been issued for Arya and Alana, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Maldonado-Cruz was last known to be driving a gray 2020 Hyundai Elantra with California license plate 8LZD084, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The sheriff&#8217;s office urges anyone with information to call Detective Tyler Haener at 559-670-9320 or 559-852-2818, or the Kings County Sheriff\u2019s Dispatch at 559-852-2720. Information can be provided anonymously at 559-852-4554.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (CALIFORNIA) &#8212; Authorities in California are searching for a man who allegedly gunned down his daughters&#8217; mother and kidnapped the two young girls. The suspect, 23-year-old Jonathan Alexis Maldonado-Cruz, may have fled to Mexico, the Kings County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said Wednesday. The case began Tuesday afternoon<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/man-wanted-for-killing-woman-kidnapping-their-2-daughters-may-have-fled-to-mexico-sheriff\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}