{"id":299991,"date":"2026-05-05T00:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299991\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:34:22","slug":"bakersfield-shooting-kills-16-year-old-boy-injures-3-other-juveniles-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299991\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield shooting kills 16-year-old boy, injures 3 other juveniles, sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) A shooting in southeast Bakersfield on Saturday night left a 16-year-old boy dead and three other juveniles injured, as investigators with the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office work to identify a suspect.<\/p>\n

RELATED: 16-year-old boy killed, three others hurt after shooting on East Pacheco Road<\/a><\/p>\n

A neighbor described hearing what they initially thought was something else. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought it was our neighbors out there with their horses,\u201d the neighbor said. <\/p>\n

\u201cCome to find out that\u2019s not what it was. We heard the gunshots.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Bakersfield<\/p>\n

Bakersfield shooting kills 16-year-old boy, injures 3 other juveniles, sheriff says (KNN.NEWS)<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s office is still investigating and has not identified a suspect.<\/p>\n

Another neighbor said the location had not previously been a problem. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve had quite a few parties there and never once had they had any issues,\u201d the neighbor said.<\/p>\n

The shooting comes as Kern County has seen a string of teen-involved shootings over the last several months, raising questions about how local youth are getting access to guns.<\/p>\n

Tommy Tunson, a professor of criminal justice at Bakersfield College, said he believes access often starts at home. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe primary way that I believe is through parents and through the home,\u201d Tunson said.<\/p>\n

\"Bakersfield<\/p>\n

Bakersfield shooting kills 16-year-old boy, injures 3 other juveniles, sheriff says (KNN.NEWS)<\/p>\n

Tunson said it is not unusual for teens to access their parents\u2019 guns when they are not properly stored.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019ve seen much more of that in the last probably – I don\u2019t know – five years than I have in a very long time – of the access to obtaining a weapon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Tunson emphasized the importance of securing firearms when children are in the house.<\/p>\n

\"Bakersfield<\/p>\n

Bakersfield shooting kills 16-year-old boy, injures 3 other juveniles, sheriff says (KNN.NEWS)<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd that\u2019s the accountability that I talk about that parents should have because they owe that duty of care to their children and to the neighborhood and to society in general,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) A shooting in southeast Bakersfield on Saturday night left a 16-year-old boy dead and three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-299991","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\/299991","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=299991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}