Halloween weekend in Bakersfield turned deadly after a series of shootings and traffic crashes left six people dead, raising concerns about gun violence and pedestrian safety across the community.<\/p>\n
Police responded about 3:30 a.m. on Halloween to reports of gunshots at a large party on Half Moon Drive in southwest Bakersfield. Officers found a 16-year-old boy suffering from gunshot wounds. He later died at the scene.<\/p>\n
A neighbor described waking up to chaos outside. \u201cI was asleep and I woke up to a bunch of kids by my driveway yelling and crying and running as soon as I came out to my front yard. My whole front yard was filled of kids cars passing by driving crazy,\u201d the neighbor said.<\/p>\n
Police returned to Half Moon Drive on Monday night. Officers were seen entering the home where neighbors said the shooting took place.<\/p>\n
About an hour earlier and about a mile away, a young woman was struck and killed by a Bakersfield police car on White Lane around 2:45 a.m. Police said she walked in front of the patrol car and was not in a crosswalk. The officer, Robert Carreno, was placed on leave.<\/p>\n
Also in southwest Bakersfield on Halloween night, a 12-year-old girl died after a car struck her family on Harris Road. The crash happened on an unmarked crosswalk near Marin Street, where residents have repeatedly pushed for traffic safety improvements.<\/p>\n
Hours later, just after midnight on Sunday, Nov. 1, a young woman was shot and killed at a large gathering on Rosedale Highway during what police said was an armed robbery.<\/p>\n
Two more pedestrians were killed in crashes later Sunday night. A man was struck and killed by a car around 6:32 p.m. while crossing a marked crosswalk in southwest Bakersfield at California Avenue and Business Center Drive. About an hour later in Oildale, a 68-year-old man in a motorized wheelchair was killed after he was struck by a car on North Chester Avenue. The driver left the scene.<\/p>\n
Back on Half Moon Drive, neighbors said they are still searching for answers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really tragic that you know a child died and nobody knows what happened and nobody\u2019s talking. There were a lot of people there and nobody seems to know what\u2019s going on. So and it\u2019s scary for those of us who live here,\u201d another neighbor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halloween weekend in Bakersfield turned deadly after a series of shootings and traffic crashes left six people dead,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-517004","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\/517004","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=517004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}