{"id":341666,"date":"2026-06-01T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341666\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:42:08","slug":"coroner-identifies-man-found-dead-on-south-king-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341666\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies man found dead on South King Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-police-respond-to-3-deaths-in-two-days-only-one-investigated-as-suspicious-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">man who was found dead on South King Street<\/a> as 40-year-old Andrew Paul Franco.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said on Wednesday, May 20, at around 9 a.m., officers were called to South King and Wilkins Streets, where a body was found in the alleyway. <\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-police-respond-to-3-deaths-in-two-days-only-one-investigated-as-suspicious-kern-county-california?teaserSource=trending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bakersfield police respond to 3 deaths in two days; only one investigated as suspicious<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police said there were no obvious signs of trauma observed at the scene. According to BPD, currently, the Robbery\/Homicide Division is investigating the case as a suspicious death. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The body was identified as Franco. The report said the cause and manner of death are pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a man who was found dead on&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-341666","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\/341666","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=341666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341666\/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=341666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}