{"id":141015,"date":"2026-01-20T04:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141015\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T04:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:30:03","slug":"coroner-identifies-39-year-old-man-killed-in-deputy-involved-shooting-in-lake-isabella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141015\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies 39-year-old man killed in deputy-involved shooting in Lake Isabella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/one-dead-after-deputy-involved-shooting-in-lake-isabella-kern-county-sheriffs-office-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> man shot and killed in the deputy-involved shooting in Lake Isabella <\/a>as 39-year-old Fernando Padilla of Bodfish.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO:<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/one-dead-after-deputy-involved-shooting-in-lake-isabella-kern-county-sheriffs-office-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> One dead after deputy-involved shooting in Lake Isabella<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office said on Sunday, January 11, 2026, at around 1:40 a.m., deputies assigned to the Kern Valley Substation responded to the area of Kilbreth Avenue and Lake Isabella Boulevard for reports of a person firing a handgun.<\/p>\n<p>KCSO said deputies made contact with the suspect, who left to the area of Highway 178, where a deputy-involved shooting happened.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies rendered medical aid and medical personnel arrived. The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s office identified him as 39-year-old Fernando Padilla.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s report said Fernando died on Highway 178, east of the Kernville Road off-ramp.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said detectives investigate any use of deadly force by any member of the department. Investigations are submitted to the Kern County District Attorney&#8217;s Office for criminal review.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to call the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office at (661)861-3110 or Kern Secret Witness at (661)322-4040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the man shot and killed in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-141015","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\/141015","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=141015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}