{"id":278126,"date":"2026-04-21T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278126\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T06:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:42:08","slug":"investigation-underway-after-40-year-old-man-shot-and-killed-in-wasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278126\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway after 40-year-old man shot and killed in Wasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Police in Wasco are investigating after a man was killed on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wasco Police, officers were called out at 3:22 p.m. to the 1100 block of Poso Avenue for reports of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found a 40-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Fire Department and Hall Ambulance performed life-saving measures, but the man later died.<\/p>\n<p>Wasco Police are now investigating. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call the Wasco Police Department at (661) 758-7266.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Police in Wasco are investigating after a man was killed on Sunday afternoon. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-278126","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\/278126","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=278126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}