{"id":28793,"date":"2025-10-29T16:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/28793\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:26:07","slug":"coroner-identifies-40-year-old-man-shot-dead-in-wasco-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/28793\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies 40-year-old man shot dead in Wasco field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a man who was shot dead in a field in Wasco as 40-year-old Hector Manuel Prado Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The report said on October 23, 2025, at 5:30 p.m., Prado Jr. was found dead in a field southwest of West Lerdo Highway and Wildwood Road.<\/p>\n<p>The report said an autopsy was conducted, and the cause of death is multiple gunshot wounds, and the manner of death is homicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a man who was shot dead in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-28793","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\/28793","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=28793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}