{"id":267697,"date":"2026-04-14T18:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267697\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:33:16","slug":"30-year-old-bakersfield-man-shot-and-killed-on-knotts-street-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267697\/","title":{"rendered":"30-year-old Bakersfield man shot and killed on Knotts Street identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/homicide-detectives-investigating-shooting-in-east-bakersfield-kern-county-sheriffs-office-knotts-street-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> man shot and killed on Knotts Street<\/a> as 30-year-old Arthur Deray Ward of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/homicide-detectives-investigating-shooting-in-east-bakersfield-kern-county-sheriffs-office-knotts-street-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">One dead, one hospitalized after shooting on Knotts Street in east Bakersfield<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office said on April 13, 2026, at around 10:15 a.m., deputies were dispatched to the 600 block of Knotts Street for a report of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>When deputies arrived, they found two victims, both men.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"One man died, and another is hospitalized after a shooting Monday morning in east Bakersfield. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a20cdd07-eb37-428c-b11c-5ae61dcf4fbb-Sequence_MILLS_KNOTTSANDBAKERSHOOTING_0001_frame_14440.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One man died, and another is hospitalized after a shooting Monday morning in east Bakersfield. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>Both were taken to a hospital, where one of the victims, later identified as Ward, was later pronounced dead. The second victim remains hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office at (661) 861 3110 or the Secret Witness line at (661) 322 4040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the man shot and killed on Knotts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-267697","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\/267697","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=267697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}