{"id":122969,"date":"2026-01-07T01:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122969\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T01:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:57:19","slug":"man-woman-dead-after-apparent-murder-suicide-were-divorced-bakersfield-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122969\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, woman dead after apparent murder-suicide were divorced: Bakersfield PD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The man and woman dead after an apparent murder-suicide in northeast Bakersfield were divorced, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police told 17 News the man and woman dead after the apparent murder-suicide were divorced but living together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They were identified as Pedro Juan Rivera Gonzalez, 49, and Francis B Lainez Romero, 55, both of Bakersfield, according to the coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause and manner of their deaths is pending, according to the Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Autopsies will determine the cause and manner of their deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Just after 10 p.m. on Dec. 25, officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 2700 block of Blade Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 man and woman dead after an apparent murder-suicide in northeast Bakersfield were divorced,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[45598,151,153,152,324,64410,328,13342,64411],"class_list":["post-122969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-apparent-murder-suicide","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police-department","tag-francis-b-lainez-romero","tag-kget","tag-northeast-bakersfield","tag-pedro-juan-rivera-gonzalez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122969","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=122969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}