On the first night of the Kern County Fair, September 17, 2025, deputies were called just after 11:10 p.m. to the 900 block of Vine Drive in a neighborhood south of the fairgrounds. There, a male, 40-year-old Wilberto Ruben Hernandez of Bakersfield, was found with fatal gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at the scene. Homicide detectives from the Kern County Sheriff's Office took over the investigation as the neighborhood lights dimmed and fair traffic thinned, leaving a quiet street marked by e
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