{"id":841767,"date":"2026-06-03T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/841767\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:40:14","slug":"hostages-safe-in-15-hour-bakersfield-bank-standoff-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/841767\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostages safe in 15-hour Bakersfield bank standoff \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All hostages were safe after a more than 15-hour standoff that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/national-international\/chase-bank-barricade-california\/3898737\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">began early Tuesday afternoon<\/a> and stretched into Wednesday morning at a Bakersfield bank before ending in a law enforcement shooting, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The hostage situation concluded at about 4 a.m. Wednesday at the multi-story building, which houses a Chase bank branch and school district office in the Kern County community about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene, police said Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Details about how the suspect died were not immediately available, but authorities said the standoff concluded with a law enforcement shooting. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All hostages were located unharmed and received medical evaluation and treatment at the scene,&#8221; Bakersfield police said, adding department officers were not involved in the use of force. .<\/p>\n<p>The standoff unfolded Tuesday at about 1 p.m. when Bakersfield police said a man barricaded himself inside the building with &#8220;several community members.&#8221; Crisis negotiators and negotiators with the FBI responded to the location after law enforcement investigated a bomb threat call. <\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told NBCLA that around 2:30 a.m. dozens of 50 SWAT members swarmed the bank and brought a man, possibly the suspect, out of the building overnight. Video showed officers escorting a group of about seven people from the building.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby buildings were evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase said its branch is on the ground floor of the building and is currently empty. The company is working with authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Residents were urged to avoid the area, which remained blocked off Wednesday with yellow police tape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best way the public can help at this time is by avoiding the area and allowing law enforcement officers, negotiators, and other trained professionals the space and opportunity to safely carry out their duties,\u201d Bakersfield Mayor Karen Goh said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All hostages were safe after a more than 15-hour standoff that began early Tuesday afternoon and stretched into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":841768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,141092,2961,224,5337],"class_list":["post-841767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-kern-county","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116686935065454718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}