{"id":370763,"date":"2026-06-22T23:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370763\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:03:07","slug":"12-year-old-found-unresponsive-in-california-city-pond-police-investigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370763\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old found unresponsive in California City pond, police investigate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 12-year-old boy who was found unresponsive in a pond at Central Park in California City has been identified, according to the Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s office said the boy was found unresponsive on June 18, 2026, just after 6 p.m. in the 10300 block of Heather Avenue. First responders pulled him from the pond, and he was taken to Adventist Health Tehachapi, where he died the following day.<\/p>\n<p>The cause and manner of death are pending, the coroner\u2019s office said. An autopsy was performed.<\/p>\n<p>The California City Police Department is investigating. A report also indicates a dog attack was involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 12-year-old boy who was found unresponsive in a pond at Central Park in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-370763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370763","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=370763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}