BREAKINGBREAKING, <\/p>\n
The shooting ends a 12-hour standoff in the city of Bakersfield between suspect and law enforcement.<\/p>\n
Published On 3 Jun 20263 Jun 2026<\/p>\n
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in the United States have fatally shot a man allegedly holding hostages inside of a building in California.<\/p>\n
The shooting ended a 12-hour standoff at an office in Bakersfield that houses a bank branch and school district office.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the Bakersfield police said the suspect was killed in \u201can officer-involved shooting involving Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel\u201d.<\/p>\n
It added that \u201call hostages were located unharmed and received medical evaluation and treatment at the scene\u201d.<\/p>\n
Police had originally been called following a bomb threat at the location. Police said the man barricaded himself inside with several people, two of whom were released Tuesday after negotiations with authorities.<\/p>\n
Authorities established a wide perimeter around the building, evacuating the nearby City Hall and the police headquarters.<\/p>\n
Bakersfield police sergeant Eric Celedon told reporters on Tuesday the department had \u201cevery single resource at our disposal out here to bring this to the safest resolution possible\u201d.<\/p>\n
Police on Wednesday said the investigation was ongoing and that \u201csignificant\u201d law enforcement would remain in the area.<\/p>\n
The identity of the suspect was not immediately released and a motive was unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKINGBREAKING, The shooting ends a 12-hour standoff in the city of Bakersfield between suspect and law enforcement. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,723,5364,100,236,435,9098],"class_list":["post-344934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crime","tag-gun-violence","tag-news","tag-police","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344934","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=344934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}