{"id":76872,"date":"2025-12-01T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/76872\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:22:07","slug":"highway-99-closed-after-chase-officer-involved-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/76872\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 99 closed after chase, officer-involved shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Southbound Highway 99 south of Highway 223 remains closed following a high-speed chase that ended in an officer-involved shooting this morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>CHP Bakersfield Public Information Officer Jorge Toro confirmed the incident resulted in the freeway closure with no estimated time for reopening.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is currently being redirected around the area. CHP advises drivers to find alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details about the chase or shooting have been released at this time.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Southbound Highway 99 south of Highway 223 remains closed following a high-speed chase that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,859,852,2037,44375,1825,162,20303],"class_list":["post-76872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-chp","tag-high-speed-chase","tag-highway-223","tag-highway-99","tag-kern-county-news","tag-officer-involved-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76872","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=76872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}