{"id":364863,"date":"2026-06-17T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364863\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:53:08","slug":"coroner-ids-78-year-old-man-found-stabbed-to-death-suspect-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364863\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner IDs 78-year-old man found stabbed to death, suspect pleads not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/kcso-26-year-old-man-arrested-in-fatal-stabbing-in-east-bakersfield-kern-county-sheriffs-office-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">78-year-old Bakersfield man who was stabbed to death June 7 in east Bakersfield<\/a> has been identified as Amador L. Ramos, according to the Kern County coroner.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner said Ramos was found by deputies at 5:40 p.m. in the 1100 block of Grace Street when they arrived for a report of a stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office said that during the investigation, at around 8 p.m., 26-year-old Angel Garcia Meza was arrested near Morning Drive and College Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>He was booked for murder and a warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Meza pleaded not guilty to murder and related charges on June 9, court records show. He is due in court for a hearing on June 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 78-year-old Bakersfield man who was stabbed to death June 7 in east Bakersfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-364863","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\/364863","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=364863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}