{"id":4629,"date":"2025-10-14T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/4629\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:04:07","slug":"coroner-ids-man-who-died-after-assault-in-south-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/4629\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner ID\u2019s man who died after assault in south Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office identified a man who died after an assault in south Bakersfield. <\/p>\n<p>The man was identified as Peter Espinoza, 56, of Bakersfield. Officials with the coroner\u2019s office said Espinoza was found unresponsive on Oct. 2 in the 100 block of East White Lane around 10:08 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead at the scene within the hour. <\/p>\n<p>Police said just after 10 a.m., an officer witnessed an assault in the 100 block of East White Lane. Aid was rendered and the victim was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the incident, an assailant was taken into custody. <\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department told 17 News the day after the incident there were no suspects in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department is investigating this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office identified a man who died after an assault in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-4629","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\/4629","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=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}