{"id":399000,"date":"2026-07-15T06:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399000\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T06:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:31:45","slug":"lancaster-man-arraigned-on-attempted-murder-charges-in-forrest-street-shooting-records-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399000\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster man arraigned on attempted murder charges in Forrest Street shooting: Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Lancaster man was arraigned on Tuesday, July 14, for a <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/heavy-police-presence-in-neighborhood-near-downtown-bakersfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shooting on Forrest Street last month that injured another man<\/a>. He faces attempted murder and related charges, according to Kern County court records.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e9a0628d-e0ae-4248-a7cb-9985a923bfd5-Image2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Christian Villasenor, 43, was arraigned Tuesday in connection with the shooting. Bakersfield police said <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/forrest-street-shooting-suspect-arrested-in-las-vegas-bakersfield-pd-metro-police-nevada-h-street-downtown-california-kern-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Villasenor was arrested on July 1, 2026, after fleeing to Las Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Villasenor faces additional charges of assault on a person with a firearm and being a felon in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police said the shooting happened Tuesday, June 30, 2026, at about 5:45 p.m. on Forrest Street near H Street.<\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUS REPORTING: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/heavy-police-presence-in-neighborhood-near-downtown-bakersfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">One in critical condition after shooting near downtown Bakersfield<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police said there is no indication the crime was gang-related. Officials said the man who was struck remained in &#8220;critical but stable condition&#8221; in early July.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/763ba49d-0d2d-49f6-a117-3191869b9443-Image.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect and victim are known acquaintances and that the victim was the target.<\/p>\n<p>Villasenor&#8217;s next court date is pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Lancaster man was arraigned on Tuesday, July 14, for a shooting on Forrest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-399000","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\/399000","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=399000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}