{"id":523568,"date":"2026-11-09T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/523568\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:40:07","slug":"bakersfield-police-investigating-suspicious-death-as-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/523568\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield Police investigating suspicious death as homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bakersfield Police Department is investigating a suspicious death as a homicide, after a man died in a vacant lot on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>At around 4:29 p.m., police were called to a vacant lot in the 200 block of Northrup Street for an ambulance request. There, officers found a man suffering from major injuries. <\/p>\n<p>They attempted to save his life until emergency services arrived. Although he continued to receive medical care, the victim died at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>BPD is considering the death suspicious and they will investigate it as a homicide. Police have not yet released the name of the suspect; the Kern County Coroner&#8217;s Office will release the victim&#8217;s name at a later date. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective A. Kennedy at (661) 326-3535 or BPD at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bakersfield Police Department is investigating a suspicious death as a homicide, after a man died in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-523568","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\/523568","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=523568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}