{"id":114538,"date":"2025-12-31T04:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/114538\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:16:12","slug":"bakersfield-pd-identifies-suspect-shot-by-officer-monday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/114538\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield PD identifies suspect shot by officer Monday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department identified the suspect who was shot by an officer Monday morning after fleeing from a vehicle that failed a traffic stop in northwest Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was identified as Fabian Lopez, 37, of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said Lopez is in critical condition at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Bakersfield Police Department, officers attempted a traffic stop in the area of Mohawk Street and Siena Lane at 2:15 a.m. Monday. The vehicle stopped on Latina Drive and Pisa Way, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One of the occupants, later identified as Lopez, fled the vehicle eastbound on foot, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An officer with Bakersfield police pursued Lopez, who pulled out a handgun and pointed it at the officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The officer then shot the man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department identified the suspect who was shot by an officer Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,324,61269,16552],"class_list":["post-114538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police-department","tag-fabian-lopez","tag-northwest-bakersfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}