{"id":345042,"date":"2026-06-03T17:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345042\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:17:08","slug":"watch-live-bakersfield-police-give-update-on-bomb-threat-and-hostage-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345042\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH LIVE: Bakersfield Police give update on bomb threat and hostage situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Following the deadly shooting of the suspect involved in the bomb threat and hostage situation in downtown Bakersfield, police are giving on latest update on the situation:<\/p>\n<p>WATCH LIVE BELOW:<\/p>\n<p>That shooting took place this morning, killing the suspect, involving officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Bakersfield police were not involved.<\/p>\n<p>All hostages are said to not be harmed and received medical attention at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement will remain on scene as the investigation remains ongoing, so traffic closures remain in effect.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Following the deadly shooting of the suspect involved in the bomb threat and hostage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,33087,26289,70043,1055,12015,162,135],"class_list":["post-345042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bomb","tag-bomb-threat","tag-chase-bank","tag-fbi","tag-hostage","tag-kern-county-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345042","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=345042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}