{"id":440124,"date":"2026-08-22T04:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440124\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:34:17","slug":"prayer-held-at-bchs-football-game-as-shooting-investigation-underway-at-independence-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440124\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer held at BCHS football game as shooting investigation underway at Independence High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield Christian High School football team and Faith Lutheran High School joined together to pray<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-police-investigate-shooting-reported-at-independence-high-school-friday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> during halftime amid the shooting investigation at Independence High School Friday night.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On August 21, 2026, the Bakersfield Police Department confirmed they were investigating a shooting at Independence High School.<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-police-investigate-shooting-reported-at-independence-high-school-friday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-police-investigate-shooting-reported-at-independence-high-school-friday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Bakersfield police investigate shooting reported at Independence High School Friday night<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened as dozens of high schools had their first football game.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The Bakersfield Police Department said they are investigating a shooting at Independence High School on Friday night. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787373257_846_91f6f748-8467-4a36-a4ed-143ec8b371c8-Media13.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said they are investigating a shooting at Independence High School on Friday night. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>According to an Eyewitness News crew at the football game, an Independence staff member told him that a fight broke out, and one person was shot in the chest.<\/p>\n<p>Another Eyewitness News crew was at Bakersfield Christian High School. A prayer was held at the midfield during halftime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield Christian High School football team and Faith Lutheran High School joined together to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-440124","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\/440124","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=440124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}