{"id":227038,"date":"2026-03-19T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227038\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:27:10","slug":"woman-shot-by-bakersfield-police-reconsidered-for-mental-health-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227038\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman shot by Bakersfield police reconsidered for mental health diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Deashanay Holmes, a 26-year-old woman shot by Bakersfield police in southwest Bakersfield last year, appeared in court on Wednesday and is being reconsidered for mental health diversion.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Holmes pulled a knife and charged at officers outside of the Walmart on Gosford Road last July.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes faces six charges, including assault on a peace officer, resisting arrest, and other related charges.<\/p>\n<p>She is due back in court on April 15.<\/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 Deashanay Holmes, a 26-year-old woman shot by Bakersfield police in southwest Bakersfield last year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103336,151,155,153,152,154,103334,162,8235,20303,103335],"class_list":["post-227038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-assault-on-a-peace-officer","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police","tag-deashanay-holmes","tag-kern-county-news","tag-mental-health-diversion","tag-officer-involved-shooting","tag-walmart-gosford-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227038","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=227038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}