{"id":463117,"date":"2026-09-14T05:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463117\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T05:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:12:11","slug":"39-year-old-man-killed-during-altercation-with-security-guard-at-orange-county-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463117\/","title":{"rendered":"39-year-old man killed during altercation with security guard at Orange County bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway in Orange County, where a 39-year-old man was killed during an altercation with a security guard at a bar on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Orange Police Department, officers were called to a bar called Bikini in a Bottle, which is located in the 1500 block of W. Chapman Avenue, at around 11 p.m. for reports of an unconscious man in the parking lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, they found a man who was unresponsive and suffering from head injuries. Despite attempted life-saving measures from Orange Fire Department paramedics, the man was pronounced dead at the scene. He has not yet been identified.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Preliminary information indicates the male was involved in a disturbance with patrons inside the bar. Security personnel asked him to leave and later escorted him outside,&#8221; Orange PD said. &#8220;Investigators learned he subsequently returned and attempted to re-enter the bar before an altercation with a security guard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police say that the guard struck the man in the head during the altercation, which then caused him to fall to the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investigators continue to examine the sequence of events and circumstances surrounding the injuries,&#8221; police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The security guard, who also hasn&#8217;t been publicly identified, stayed at the scene to cooperate with investigators, according to Orange PD.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been reported and the investigation remained ongoing as of Sunday night, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway in Orange County, where a 39-year-old man was killed during an altercation with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-463117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463117","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=463117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}