{"id":269897,"date":"2026-04-16T00:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269897\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T00:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:21:07","slug":"homicide-investigation-underway-after-60-year-old-man-found-dead-in-bakersfield-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269897\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide investigation underway after 60-year-old man found dead in Bakersfield apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police are investigating the death of a 60-year-old man found in an apartment on Taylor Street as a homicide after determining he was the victim of an assault.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said on Wednesday, April 15th, 2026, at around 6:18 a.m., officers were called to the 600 block of Taylor Street for a report of an unknown situation, possibly a medical event inside an apartment.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found a body of a 60-year-old man in the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the man was a victim of an assault.<\/p>\n<p>This is being investigated as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Police said no further details will be released at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police are investigating the death of a 60-year-old man found in an apartment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-269897","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\/269897","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=269897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}