{"id":190751,"date":"2026-02-24T00:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190751\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T00:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:41:06","slug":"bakersfield-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-trying-to-murder-alleged-domestic-violence-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190751\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield man arrested on suspicion of trying to murder alleged domestic violence victim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Bakersfield man was arrested this month on suspicion of trying to murder his girlfriend, who died nearly a week after she arrived at a local hospital with severe injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p> Officers were  called to Adventist Health Bakersfield at 10:50 p.m. Feb. 7 by medical professionals after a woman arrived with injuries that appeared to be the result of physical abuse, according to a Bakersfield Police Department news release. <\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old patient suffered \u201cscrapes and bruises, marks consistent with being tied up, possible cigarette burns and broken bones, and \u2018obvious deformity,\u2019 \u201d <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/news\/crime-watch\/she-died-after-suffering-gruesome-injuries-her-ex-boyfriend-said-she-slipped-in-the-shower\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a local NBC affiliate reported<\/a>, citing a court filing by police.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, identified later as Crystal Marie Falcon,  died from her injuries on Feb. 13, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield resident Brandon Grimaldo, 29, was charged the same day with attempted and premeditated murder, causing great bodily injury and aggravated mayhem, according to  a criminal complaint. <\/p>\n<p>Grimaldo allegedly told police that Falcon slipped in the shower, the TV station reported. <\/p>\n<p>Falcon had two children, according to a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/23-year-old-woman-dies-days-after-going-unresponsive-in-sw-bakersfield-home-bpd-investigating-crime-officer-southwest-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">local news site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bakersfield man was arrested this month on suspicion of trying to murder his girlfriend, who died nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[89470,151,153,61625,152,89469,39029,89464,43339,45043,89465,89468,89467,236,89466,89463,10132,1557],"class_list":{"0":"post-190751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-23-year-old-patient","9":"tag-bakersfield","10":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","11":"tag-bakersfield-man","12":"tag-bakersfield-news","13":"tag-broken-bone","14":"tag-criminal-complaint","15":"tag-domestic-violence-victim","16":"tag-falcon","17":"tag-feb","18":"tag-grimaldo","19":"tag-medical-professional","20":"tag-p-m-feb","21":"tag-police","22":"tag-scrape","23":"tag-severe-injury","24":"tag-suspicion","25":"tag-woman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190751","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=190751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}