{"id":69874,"date":"2025-11-25T23:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/69874\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:37:08","slug":"mans-death-in-se-bakersfield-investigated-as-deadly-assault-coroner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/69874\/","title":{"rendered":"Man&#8217;s death in SE Bakersfield investigated as deadly assault: Coroner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The death of Luis Valenzuela Jr., 43, of Bakersfield, is now being investigated as a deadly assault, according to a Kern County coroner&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n<p>Valenzuela was found dead on Nov. 22, 2025, inside a home in the 300 block of Valcluse Bay Drive, near South Union Avenue and East Berkshire Road.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department reported that officers were<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/police-investigate-active-crime-scene-on-vancluse-bay-dr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> initially called to the home at 12:37 p.m. for a welfare check<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, they discovered Valenzuela&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner said that Valenzuela died at the scene at 2:15 p.m. from injuries related to an assault. <\/p>\n<p>No suspect information has been released, and the investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities urge anyone with information to contact the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111 or the Secret Witness line at (661) 322-4040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The death of Luis Valenzuela Jr., 43, of Bakersfield, is now being investigated as a&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-69874","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\/69874","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=69874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69874\/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=69874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}