{"id":316535,"date":"2026-05-15T02:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316535\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:51:33","slug":"lockdown-at-bakersfield-hs-lifted-bpd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316535\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown at Bakersfield HS lifted: BPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A lockdown at Bakersfield High School Thursday morning was lifted after officers investigated the report of a person with a rifle strapped across their chest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bakersfield police said the report came in at about 8:55 a.m. Officers were at the school a minute later, according to BPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The school was placed on lockdown while Kern High School District officers and BPD officers investigated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said no shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the person who reported the incident refused to give any additional information, identifying information and called from a blocked number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials with the high school district said operations at the high school are resuming normally for the remainder of the day and additional law enforcement will be on-site as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A lockdown at Bakersfield High School Thursday morning was lifted after officers investigated the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,18835,152,15589],"class_list":["post-316535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-high-school","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-kern-high-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316535","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=316535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}