{"id":345579,"date":"2026-06-03T23:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345579\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T23:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:09:30","slug":"fbi-has-shot-killed-man-holding-hostages-in-bakersfield-california-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345579\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI has shot, killed man holding hostages in Bakersfield, California, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BAKERSFIELD, Cali. (AP) \u2014 A man holding hostages inside a building in California that houses a bank branch and school district office has been shot and killed by the FBI. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Bakersfield Police Department said in a statement Wednesday that the suspect was killed in \u201can officer-involved shooting involving Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say all the hostages are free and none was harmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The standoff in downtown Bakersfield began Tuesday afternoon when officers responded to a call of a bomb threat at the Chase Bank building. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bakersfield Police said the man barricaded himself inside with several people. Two were released Tuesday after negotiations with authorities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nearby buildings, including City Hall and the police headquarters, were evacuated and some roads were closed.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KVVU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Cali. (AP) \u2014 A man holding hostages inside a building in California that houses a bank branch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-345579","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\/345579","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=345579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}