{"id":483205,"date":"2026-10-02T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483205\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:26:10","slug":"2-bakersfield-men-shot-and-killed-in-porterville-police-confirm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483205\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Bakersfield men shot and killed in Porterville, police confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway after two people were killed in Porterville early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790979970_639_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 2, 2026 6:50PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Two men are dead following a shooting in Porterville early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials confirmed that the victims are 30-year-olds who were living in Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities were called to Main Street and Date Avenue just before 5 am for reports of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Both men were found suffering from gunshot wounds. They were declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No information on what led to the shooting has been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Tulare County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is assisting with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victims have not been identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Anyone with more information is asked to contact the Porterville Police Department.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after two people were killed in Porterville early Friday morning. Friday, October 2, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[189259,151,153,152,6599,28308,8729,292,294],"class_list":["post-483205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-189259","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-deadly-shooting","tag-double-homicide","tag-main-street","tag-porterville","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483205","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=483205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}