{"id":238461,"date":"2026-03-27T01:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238461\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:53:18","slug":"bakersfield-police-investigate-late-night-emergency-outside-college-avenue-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238461\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police investigate late-night emergency outside College Avenue home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) A woman was found gravely injured Wednesday night at an apartment complex along College Avenue in Bakersfield and later died at the hospital, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbor Kristine Camero said she sensed something was wrong outside a home along College Avenue just before 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI already knew I had a feeling that there was an emergency,\u201d Camero said.<\/p>\n<p>Camero said she looked outside but could not clearly see what was happening. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"college ave.jpg\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b70888c0-2161-4570-9c0a-7e54fa983be8-collegeave.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I looked out the window, and I can&#8217;t really see the ambulance,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were parked kind of towards where the couple lived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police said the woman was found at the Shadow Ridge apartment complex. <\/p>\n<p>Police identified 33-year-old Victor Farias as the man they believe assaulted the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Farias is said to be 5&#8217;7&#8243; tall, 140 pounds, brown hair and hazel eyes. <\/p>\n<p>He has an active warrant for his arrest for homicide, assault with a deadly weapon, child abuse charges and domestic violence charges.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"shadow ridge.jpg\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/285c4077-dc96-45e0-8e90-0fe3996d38ed-shadowridge.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police said Farias fled and later abandoned his car near Tucker Road and Highway 58 in Tehachapi after an apparent hit-and-run crash.<\/p>\n<p>Farias is expected to face several charges, including homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Camero said the woman had two children. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"police car.jpg\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0693562b-56c0-455b-865f-1a8d2734cd4b-policecar.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I talked to her when I see her once in a while. She does have two girls,\u201d Camero said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) A woman was found gravely injured Wednesday night at an apartment complex along College Avenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-238461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238461","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=238461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}