{"id":279277,"date":"2026-04-21T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279277\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:52:07","slug":"coroner-confirms-bakersfield-man-found-dead-in-townhome-was-stabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279277\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner confirms Bakersfield man found dead in townhome was stabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner confirmed a 60-year-old man found dead in a southwest Bakersfield townhome was stabbed.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Gauthier was found dead on April 15th at a residence on the 600 block of Taylor Street.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department investigated the incident as a homicide after determining Gauthier died from an assault. Officers originally responded to the scene for reports of a medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not made any arrests or provided suspect information.<\/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 confirmed a 60-year-old man found dead in a southwest Bakersfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,120377,152,324,5083,162,120378,120379],"class_list":["post-279277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-homicide","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police-department","tag-kern-county-coroner","tag-kern-county-news","tag-michael-gauthier","tag-taylor-street-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279277","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=279277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}