Fresno police are investigating the homicide of Georgiana McGhee, 50, after officers found her unconscious in a canal near Nielsen and Hughes avenues late night on May 10, 2026. (Fresno PD)
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Fresno police are investigating the death of a 50-year-old woman whose body was found in a canal on Sunday, May 10, and whose death was later ruled a homicide.
Officers with the Southwest Policing District were dispatched at 11:42 p.m. to a canal bank near Nielsen and Hughes avenues after receiving a report of an adult woman in the water, police said.
Officers arrived and removed the unconscious woman from the canal. Police and emergency medical personnel attempted lifesaving measures, but the woman died at the scene.
An autopsy completed Tuesday, May 12, by the Fresno County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office determined the death was a homicide, police said.
The victim was identified as Georgiana McGhee, 50, of Fresno.
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The investigation remains ongoing.
Detectives are asking anyone with information about the incident or McGhee’s last known whereabouts to contact Fresno police homicide detectives J. Espinoza at (559) 621-2415 or A. Lopez at (559) 621-2443.
Anonymous tips can also be submitted to Crime Stoppers at (559) 498-STOP (7867).
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