{"id":503519,"date":"2026-10-22T00:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503519\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T00:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:14:08","slug":"second-suspect-16-surrenders-nearly-a-week-after-deadly-bakersfield-police-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503519\/","title":{"rendered":"Second suspect, 16, surrenders nearly a week after deadly Bakersfield police shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 16-year-old boy surrendered to Bakersfield police nearly a week after <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-police-department-investigating-officer-involved-shooting-1-injured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an officer-involved shooting on Pacheco Road<\/a> that left a 23-year-old man dead.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said on Wednesday, October 14th, 2026, at around 9:15 p.m., officers tried to speak with two people, identified as males, in the 1000 block of Pacheco Road, near Monitor Street.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the two people ran away from officers. An officer-involved shooting then happened.<\/p>\n<p>One of the two people was shot. Police said medical aid was provided; however, the person was pronounced dead at the scene. The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office identified the person as 23-year-old Daniel James Ruiz of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, a gun was recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-police-department-investigating-officer-involved-shooting-1-injured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bakersfield PD officers involved in deadly suspect shooting identified<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"FILE - This is a photo of Bakersfield police responding to an officer-involved shooting on Oct. 14, 2026. (KBAK\/KBFX)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/309452ae-cf2c-4b47-8521-2d82840d4785-Image28.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FILE &#8211; This is a photo of Bakersfield police responding to an officer-involved shooting on Oct. 14, 2026. (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the second person left the area and was at large.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a week later, police said on Tuesday, October 20th, 2026, at around 2:40 p.m., the second suspect in this case, who had been identified by the BPD as a 16-year-old boy, surrendered to police.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested on a warrant for weapons charges and booked into Kern County Juvenile Hall on applicable charges.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"FILE - This is a photo of Bakersfield police responding to an officer-involved shooting on Oct. 14, 2026. (KBAK\/KBFX)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/34ea0616-48f4-47c2-8c94-48174a5b4d7e-Image30.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FILE &#8211; This is a photo of Bakersfield police responding to an officer-involved shooting on Oct. 14, 2026. (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n<p>Police said no additional suspects are outstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 16-year-old boy surrendered to Bakersfield police nearly a week after an officer-involved shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-503519","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\/503519","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=503519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}