{"id":441408,"date":"2026-08-23T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/441408\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T19:06:10","slug":"15-year-old-boy-arrested-in-deadly-shooting-at-high-school-football-game-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/441408\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old boy arrested in deadly shooting at high school football game in Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting Friday night during a football game in Bakersfield, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shooting happened around 8 p.m. at Independence High School, about 20 minutes south of downtown Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A 17-year-old boy, who has not been identified, was killed. Investigators believe the shooting stemmed from a fight between two groups of people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;For this to occur anywhere in our city is tragic, and one is too many, especially somewhere where we come to have a good time and bring our families, a place where we celebrate,&#8221; said Sgt. Eric Celedon with Bakersfield police. &#8220;I am confident that next Friday, everybody will be back out here full-force, enjoying the football games as they are intended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shooting happened on the same night when there was <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/high-school-football-game-los-angeles-southwest-college-evacuated-report-possible-shooting\/19717018\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a scare at a different high school football game at Los Angeles Southwest College<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The game was evacuated after an apparent false report of a shooting. At least one person sustained a minor injury while people were dispersing from the area, the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department said. Still, no evidence of a shooting was found.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting Friday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[174909,151,153,152],"class_list":["post-441408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-174909","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441408","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=441408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}