{"id":268401,"date":"2026-04-15T03:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268401\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T03:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:10:47","slug":"coroner-ids-man-found-in-canal-in-sw-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268401\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner ID\u2019s man found in canal in SW Bakersfield"},"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 37-year-old man whose body was found in a canal last week in southwest Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Victor Eleazar Flores, 37, of Bakersfield was found in the Arvin\/Edison Canal at the end of the 4900 block of Ashe Road on April 8 at around 5:15 p.m., officials said in a release.<\/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\/kcso-identifies-victim-killed-knotts-191539679.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:KCSO identifies victim killed in Knotts Street shooting;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;KCSO identifies victim killed in Knotts Street shooting&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> KCSO identifies victim killed in Knotts Street shooting <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the time of the incident, Bakersfield police said someone called 911 saying their friend jumped into the canal.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Flores was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 37-year-old man whose body was found in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,5281,328,18238,116975],"class_list":{"0":"post-268401","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-kget","13":"tag-southwest-bakersfield","14":"tag-victor-eleazar-flores"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268401","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=268401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}