{"id":51672,"date":"2025-11-13T19:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51672\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:38:16","slug":"coroner-ids-woman-found-dead-in-south-bakersfield-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51672\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner ID\u2019s woman found dead in south Bakersfield in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office identified a 24-year-old woman who was found in south Bakersfield on Aug. 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Coroner officials said Khalaya Tarea Lampkin Blackmon, 24, of Bakersfield was found on Aug. 19 in the 4000 block of El Potrero Lane around 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause of her death was determined to be neck compression and the manner is homicide, according to coroner officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Bakersfield Police Department is investigating this case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police previously told 17 News Blackmon was found in an encampment on a property adjacent to a canal in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">17 News has contacted the police department for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office identified a 24-year-old woman who was found in south&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,324,5281,328,32980,32982,32981],"class_list":["post-51672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police-department","tag-coroners-office","tag-kget","tag-khalaya-tarea-lampkin-blackmon","tag-neck-compression","tag-news-blackmon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51672","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=51672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}