{"id":121556,"date":"2026-01-06T01:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/121556\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:11:10","slug":"man-identified-in-fatal-foods-co-parking-lot-shooting-coroner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/121556\/","title":{"rendered":"Man identified in fatal Foods Co. parking lot shooting: Coroner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-dies-after-shooting-at-foods-co-parking-lot-on-white-lane-bakersfield-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">man shot and killed in a Foods Co. parking lot on White Lane on Friday<\/a> has been identified as Joseph Macias, 22, of Bakersfield. <\/p>\n<p>The Kern County coroner reported that Macias was found shot by another person at 9:26 p.m. on Jan. 2, 2026, at the Foods Co. located at 1801 White Lane.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police responded to reports of a shooting and discovered Macias in the parking lot with apparent gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the suspects were confronted by patrons as they left the parking lot, prompting one suspect to fire multiple rounds, striking and killing Macias. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/teens-arrested-in-connection-to-deadly-shooting-at-foods-co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Teens arrested in connection to deadly shooting at Foods Co.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suspects were apprehended on Jan. 3 in the 500 block of H Street and booked into Kern County Juvenile Hall on charges including homicide, assault with a deadly weapon, robbery, and gang participation.<\/p>\n<p>To donate to Joseph Macias&#8217; GoFundMe, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/honoring-joseph-maciass-heroic-life?attribution_id=sl:4c4d76da-a039-4310-b692-0853bd6fe08d&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1767468649&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp17_td&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=instagram_story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The man shot and killed in a Foods Co. parking lot on White Lane on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-121556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121556","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=121556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}