{"id":279173,"date":"2026-04-21T21:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279173\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:35:06","slug":"man-found-dead-in-bakersfield-apartment-identified-coroner-confirms-fatal-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279173\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead in Bakersfield apartment identified; Coroner confirms fatal stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office confirmed a <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/homicide-investigation-underway-after-60-year-old-man-found-dead-in-bakersfield-apartment-taylor-street-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">man who was found dead in his apartment<\/a> on Taylor Street was stabbed. He was identified as 60-year-old Michael A Gauthier.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/homicide-investigation-underway-after-60-year-old-man-found-dead-in-bakersfield-apartment-taylor-street-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Homicide investigation underway after 60-year-old man found dead in Bakersfield apartment<\/a><\/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 Gauthier\u2019s body in the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s report said he was stabbed and died from his injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office confirmed a man who was found dead in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-279173","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\/279173","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=279173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}