{"id":195736,"date":"2026-02-27T01:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195736\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T01:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:24:07","slug":"drug-deal-is-what-led-to-deadly-shooting-in-bakersfield-where-3-were-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195736\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug deal is what led to deadly shooting in Bakersfield where 3 were shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A drug deal led to a deadly shooting in Bakersfield on February 18th, leaving one man dead and two others injured, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting took place on the 6300 block of Chester W. Nimitz Street, where BPD says the drug deal was taking place. A man found at that scene was pronounced dead. The other two shooting victims survived.<\/p>\n<p>Officers located a second victim on Hosking Avenue and a third outside of Golden Valley High School. BPD says all three people were connected to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact BPD at 661-327-7111.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH OUR COVERAGE OF THE SHOOTING BELOW:<\/p>\n<p>One dead, others injured in shooting that involved multiple areas in Bakersfield<\/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 A drug deal led to a deadly shooting in Bakersfield on February 18th, leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,91346,153,152,6596,91345,91347,91348,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-195736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-downtown","10":"tag-bakersfield-drug-deal-shooting","11":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","12":"tag-bakersfield-news","13":"tag-bakersfield-shooting","14":"tag-bpd-shooting-investigation","15":"tag-chester-w-nimitz-street-shooting","16":"tag-golden-valley-high-school-shooting","17":"tag-kern-county-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195736","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=195736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}