{"id":257566,"date":"2026-04-08T12:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257566\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:55:39","slug":"bakersfield-police-investigating-suspicious-death-in-downtown-alley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257566\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police investigating suspicious death in downtown alley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is investigating a suspicious death after a person was found with major injuries in downtown Bakersfield overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded just before 11 p.m. to the alleyway between our 23ABC news station&#8217;s studios and the Aquarist apartment complex, located off 20th and V streets. Police found a person outside the building suffering from major injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The person was taken to a local hospital, where they later died.<\/p>\n<p>A BPD homicide unit is investigating the incident due to the suspicious nature of the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call the police at 327-7111.<\/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 The Bakersfield Police Department is investigating a suspicious death after a person was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[113852,32398,113853,151,155,153,152,324,1048,6600,162,16463],"class_list":{"0":"post-257566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-20th-and-v-streets","9":"tag-20th-street","10":"tag-aquarist-apartment-complex","11":"tag-bakersfield","12":"tag-bakersfield-downtown","13":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","14":"tag-bakersfield-news","15":"tag-bakersfield-police-department","16":"tag-downtown-bakersfield","17":"tag-homicide-investigation","18":"tag-kern-county-news","19":"tag-suspicious-death"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257566","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=257566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}