{"id":273299,"date":"2026-04-17T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273299\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:59:08","slug":"coroner-rules-mans-downtown-bakersfield-balcony-fall-an-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273299\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner rules man&#8217;s downtown Bakersfield balcony fall an accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner&#8217;s Office ruled the death of a 57-year-old man in downtown Bakersfield an accident after he fell from a balcony.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators identified the man as Scott Bryan McCollough.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found McCollough with major injuries on the 400 block of 20th Street on the night of April 7. He later died at Kern Medical.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives initially investigated the death because of suspicious circumstances. The coroner later confirmed McCollough fell from a balcony and officially ruled his death an accident.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner&#8217;s Office ruled the death of a 57-year-old man in downtown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[118456,151,155,153,152,154,118457,1048,5083,162,118455],"class_list":["post-273299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-accidental-death","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police","tag-balcony-fall","tag-downtown-bakersfield","tag-kern-county-coroner","tag-kern-county-news","tag-scott-bryan-mccollough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273299","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=273299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}