{"id":272906,"date":"2026-04-17T17:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272906\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:59:07","slug":"man-dies-after-falling-from-balcony-in-downtown-bakersfield-on-20th-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272906\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after falling from balcony in downtown Bakersfield on 20th Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/coroner-man-dies-after-falling-from-balcony-in-downtown-bakersfield-on-20th-street-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> man who died after being found with severe injuries in downtown Bakersfield<\/a> as 57-year-old Scott Bryan McCollough. The report said he fell from a balcony.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said on April 7th, at around 10:50 p.m., officers responded to the 400 block of 20th Street to assist the fire department regarding a person with major injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The person was taken to a hospital, where they later died.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bpd-investigating-suspicious-death-on-20th-st\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BPD investigating suspicious death on 20th St.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials said that due to the suspicious circumstances surrounding the incident, homicide detectives assumed an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s report said that McCollough fell from a balcony. The report said the &#8220;type of case&#8221; was identified as an accidental death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a man who died after being found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-272906","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\/272906","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=272906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}