PUBLIC SAFETY Man, 20, fatally shot on California Avenue
A man was shot and killed in the 1900 block of California Avenue on Tuesday night, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.
The Kern County coroner’s office said that Ernesto Rodriguez Jr., 20, was shot just before 9:30 p.m. and was pronounced dead at Kern Medical at 10 p.m.
Bakersfield Police said the shooting suspect was a man wearing dark clothes and a black mask.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call Detective Brent Thomas at 326-3513 or the BPD at 327-7111.
The Kern County coroner’s office has identified the three victims of a fatal car accident that occurred Monday near Shafter.
Juan Gabriel Luna Carranza, 27, Ramon Suastegui Arreola, 27, and Yolanda Gutierrez, 19, were killed in the accident at the intersection of Orange Street and Poplar Avenue.
According to a news release from the California Highway Patrol, the accident occurred just after 4 p.m. when a Chevy Impala, traveling westbound on Orange Street at a high rate of speed, ran a stop sign and broadsided an Infiniti sedan.
Carranza, the driver of the Infiniti, and Arreola, who was a passenger in the car, died at the scene.
Gutierrez, the driver of the Impala, was transported to Kern Medical before succumbing to her injuries that evening, the coroner’s report said.
The Kern County coroner’s office has identified the victim of a vehicle-versus-pedestrian fatality on Sunday night at a McDonald’s drive-thru at 4601 Coffee Road.
Timothy Wayne Skaggs, 41, was the pedestrian that was struck by a vehicle at 10:26 p.m. He was declared dead at the scene, the coroner said in its report.
The Bakersfield Police Department is investigating this incident.
The Kern County coroner’s office identified a man found dead in the 2400 block of South M Street on Tuesday.
Jimmy Reginald Erwing, 71, was found just before 6 p.m. lying on the roadway along South M Street just south of South Chester Avenue, the coroner said in its report. Erwing was pronounced dead at the scene from an unknown chest wound.
The Kern County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incident.
The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for community assistance identifying a suspect wanted in connection to a burglary that occurred the weekend of Sept. 1011 in the 5400 block of Stockdale Highway.
BPD described the suspect as a Black man between 2025 years old who stands between 5-foot-10 and 6 feet tall. He was wearing a white hat with a black logo and black bill, a black T-shirt and jeans, BPD said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Detective A. Hatfield at 326-3541 or the BPD at 327-7111.
The Bakersfield Police Department is requesting community assistance identifying a suspect wanted for vehicle burglary.
BPD said the incident occurred on Sept. 3 in the 400 block of Oak Street. The suspect forced entry into the victim vehicle and took work tools, BPD said.
BPD described the suspect vehicle as a midnight blue 2000s Chevrolet Venture, with a silver front driver door and standard black rims.
Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Ryan Clark at 326-3858 or the BPD at 327-7111.