{"id":131683,"date":"2026-06-03T10:31:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fbi-personnel-have-fatally-shot-a-man-holding-hostages-in-bakersfield-california-police-say\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:16:21","slug":"fbi-fatally-shoots-a-man-holding-hostages-in-a-california-office-building-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fbi-fatally-shoots-a-man-holding-hostages-in-a-california-office-building-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI fatally shoots a man holding hostages in a California office building, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FBI agents respond after a man barricaded himself inside a building with hostages Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in Bakersfield, Calif. (AP Photo\/David Dennis)<\/span>(AP Photo\/David Dennis)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A man who was holding hostages inside a California office building for more than 15 hours was shot and killed by the FBI early Wednesday, police said.<\/p>\n

The hostages were found unharmed inside the downtown Bakersfield building that houses a bank and a school district office, the Bakersfield Police Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The suspect was killed in \u201can officer-involved shooting” involving FBI personnel around 4:20 a.m., the department said.<\/p>\n

The standoff began around 1 p.m. Tuesday when officers responded to a call of a bomb threat at the Chase Bank building, a four-story office building with dark-tinted glass windows all around. Police said the man had barricaded himself inside with several people.<\/p>\n

The department\u2019s crisis negotiation team talked with the suspect by telephone and eventually two hostages were released Tuesday night, police said.<\/p>\n

Nearby buildings, including City Hall and the police headquarters that are just a block away, were evacuated and some roads were temporarily closed during the hostage situation. Bakersfield, a city of about 380,000 residents, is the seat of largely rural Kern County and is about 100 miles (160 kms) northeast of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase said the bank branch is on the ground floor.<\/p>\n

Officers established a perimeter around the area and warned the public to stay away.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have every single resource at our disposal out here to bring this to the safest resolution possible,\u201d Bakersfield police Sgt. Eric Celedon said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Jacob Davidson, a livestreamer known as Dad\u2019s Gone Live, was a block from the bank at his family\u2019s tattoo shop when he started getting calls about the bomb threat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went into the bank\u2019s parking garage and watched the cops enter the back of the bank. This is the biggest police presence I\u2019ve ever seen in this town,\u201d Davidson said.<\/p>\n

His livestream captured through a window in the building a woman rocking back and forth Tuesday night before crouching below the window. Later, two hands could be seen waving.<\/p>\n

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FBI agents respond after a man barricaded himself inside a building with hostages Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in Bakersfield, Calif. (AP Photo\/David Dennis)<\/span>(AP Photo\/David Dennis)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

agents respond after a man barricaded himself inside a building with hostages Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in Bakersfield, Calif. (AP Photo\/David Dennis)(AP Photo\/David Dennis) A man who was holding hostages inside a California office building for more than 15 hours was shot and killed by the FBI early Wednesday, police said. The hostages were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5734],"tags":[],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-131683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-associated-press"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131715,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131683\/revisions\/131715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131683"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=131683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}