BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office has identified the man found dead on the Kern Riverbed as 50-year-old Daniel Lee Painter of Bakersfield.
The Bakersfield Police Department said on March 24, 2025, at around 9:45 a.m., officers were called to an unknown situation in the area of the Kern Riverbed east of the Chester Avenue bridge.
When officers arrived, they found a body of a man, later identified as Painter, with an apparent gunshot wound…