Javier Casarez

Mass Murderer

Javier Casarez: 2018 Bakersfield Mass Murder

Overview

On September 12, 2018, 54-year-old Javier Casarez carried out a coordinated shooting spree across multiple locations in and around southeast Bakersfield, California, killing five people—including his recently divorced ex-wife—before fatally shooting himself as a Kern County Sheriff’s deputy closed in. Authorities described the attacks as targeted and rooted in domestic-violence dynamics.

Timeline of Events — September 12, 2018

According to investigators and contemporaneous local reporting, the violence unfolded over roughly 37 minutes between about 5:18 p.m. and 5:55 p.m., beginning at T&T Trucking near Highway 58 and Weedpatch Highway and moving to a nearby street, then to a private residence on Breckenridge Road, followed by a carjacking on Fillmore Avenue, and ending on Edison Highway where Casarez took his own life.

Victims (names, dates & locations)

• Manuel Contreras, 50 — shot and killed at T&T Trucking, near Hwy 58 & Weedpatch Hwy, Bakersfield, on Sept. 12, 2018.
• Petra Maribel Bolanos de Casarez, 45 — the gunman’s ex-wife; killed at T&T Trucking, Bakersfield, on Sept. 12, 2018.
• Antonio Valadez, 50 — pursued by vehicle and shot dead near 8032 Di Miller Drive, Bakersfield, on Sept. 12, 2018.
• Eliseo Garcia Cazares, 57 — shot and killed at a residence at 9406 Breckenridge Road, Bakersfield, on Sept. 12, 2018.
• Laura Garcia, 31 — the daughter of Eliseo; also killed at the 9406 Breckenridge Road residence, on Sept. 12, 2018.

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Confirmed Victims: (5)

Petra Maribel Bolanos de Casarez 45 yr old Female

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