{"id":437908,"date":"2026-08-20T02:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437908\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T02:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:42:21","slug":"coroner-releases-update-on-2025-ne-bakersfield-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437908\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner releases update on 2025 NE Bakersfield murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; The Kern County Coroner&#8217;s Office released additional details on a murder-suicide in northeast Bakersfield in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was identified as Pedro Juan Rivera Gonzalez, 49, and the woman was identified as Francis B. Lainez Romero, 55, both of Bakersfield, according to the coroner&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wednesday the coroner&#8217;s office released that Romero&#8217;s cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds and the manner was homicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gonzalez&#8217;s cause and manner of death has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Just after 10 p.m. on Dec. 25, officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 2700 block of Blade Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both were found dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; The Kern County Coroner&#8217;s Office released additional details on a murder-suicide in northeast Bakersfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[173702,151,153,152,173701,64410,328,64411],"class_list":["post-437908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-additional-details","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-coroner39s-office","tag-francis-b-lainez-romero","tag-kget","tag-pedro-juan-rivera-gonzalez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437908","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=437908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}