{"id":186830,"date":"2026-02-21T00:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186830\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:25:06","slug":"bakersfield-man-faces-murder-charges-after-girlfriends-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186830\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield man faces murder charges after girlfriend&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Bakersfield police have arrested a 29-year-old man in connection with his girlfriend&#8217;s death following what investigators believe was physical abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon John Grimaldo was arrested on charges related to his girlfriend&#8217;s murder after the woman died from injuries sustained in a domestic violence incident.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to Adventist Health Bakersfield on February 7 just before 11 p.m., where the woman was being treated. Police say she had been transported from a home on Terrebonne Court.<\/p>\n<p>The woman died on February 13 from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Grimaldo is being held on $1 million bail and faces charges including attempted murder and inflicting corporal injury on a spouse, along with other related charges. He is scheduled to appear in court on March 3.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they remain committed to combating domestic violence and encourage anyone in need of help to contact law enforcement or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Bakersfield police have arrested a 29-year-old man in connection with his girlfriend&#8217;s death following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[87928,151,155,153,152,154,87929,87930,4749,48397,162,87931],"class_list":{"0":"post-186830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-29-year-old","9":"tag-bakersfield","10":"tag-bakersfield-downtown","11":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","12":"tag-bakersfield-news","13":"tag-bakersfield-police","14":"tag-brandon-grimaldo","15":"tag-brandon-john-grimaldo","16":"tag-domestic-violence","17":"tag-girlfriend","18":"tag-kern-county-news","19":"tag-terrebonne-court"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186830","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=186830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}