{"id":261362,"date":"2026-04-10T17:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261362\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:35:06","slug":"kcso-speaks-on-tulare-county-sheriff-deputy-death-killing-of-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261362\/","title":{"rendered":"KCSO speaks on Tulare County Sheriff Deputy death, killing of suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Following the deadly shooting of a TCSO Deputy, the Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office speaks on the incident and their role in killing the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH THE PRESS CONFERENCE LIVE BELOW:<\/p>\n<p>Authorities identified the deputy as Randy Hoppert. The shooting happened at a home on Brian Avenue near North Salisbury Street in Porterville just after 10:20 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, identified as David Morales, was killed during an hours-long standoff at the home. TCSO says Morales was run over and killed by deputies driving the Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office SWAT vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Following the deadly shooting of a TCSO Deputy, the Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office speaks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,114732,9623,162,114703],"class_list":["post-261362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-david-morales","tag-kcso","tag-kern-county-news","tag-randy-hoppert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261362","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=261362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}