{"id":51574,"date":"2025-11-13T18:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51574\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:38:10","slug":"woman-found-dead-in-encampment-identified-coroner-confirms-it-as-a-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51574\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman found dead in encampment identified, coroner confirms it as a homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-police-investigate-womans-death-in-encampment-as-homicide-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">woman discovered dead in an encampment on El Portero Lane in August <\/a>has been identified as Khalaya Tarea Lampkin Blackmon, 24, of Bakersfield. <\/p>\n<p>The Kern County coroner confirmed that Blackmon&#8217;s death is being investigated as a homicide. <\/p>\n<p>On August 19, 2025, at 1:52 p.m., Blackmon was found dead in an encampment on a property adjacent to the canal on El Portero Lane. <\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police stated that, based on the circumstances, her death was being investigated as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The coroner confirmed through an autopsy that the cause of death was neck compression, and the manner is homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the Bakersfield Police Department at (661)  327-7111 or Secret Witness at (661) 322-4040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A woman discovered dead in an encampment on El Portero Lane in August has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-51574","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\/51574","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=51574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}