{"id":257327,"date":"2026-04-08T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257327\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:05:13","slug":"coroner-ids-glendale-man-shot-after-allegedly-breaking-into-a-tehachapi-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257327\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner ID\u2019s Glendale man shot after allegedly breaking into a Tehachapi home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office identified a man who was shot after allegedly breaking into a Tehachapi home on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Coroner officials identified him as Jason Gerard Velasquez, 47, of Glendale. The shooting was reported in the 19000 block of Alta Vista Avenue in Tehachapi around 6:21 p.m. April 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials with the sheriff\u2019s office said deputies were dispatched to a report of a burglary in progress in the 19000 block of Alta Vista Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/burglary-suspect-shot-dead-breaking-164147945.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:RELATED: Burglary suspect shot dead after breaking into Tehachapi home: KCSO;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;RELATED&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> RELATED: Burglary suspect shot dead after breaking into Tehachapi home: KCSO <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They arrived to find the suspect, later identified as Velasquez, suffering from a gunshot wound, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The homeowner was cooperating and no arrests had been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office identified a man who was shot after allegedly breaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,5281,113751],"class_list":{"0":"post-257327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news","11":"tag-coroners-office","12":"tag-jason-gerard-velasquez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257327","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=257327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}