Coroner ID’s man shot outside Sumner St restaurant

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office identified a man who was shot and killed outside a restaurant in east Bakersfield Tuesday morning.

Jeffery Stevenson, 34, of Bakersfield was pronounced dead at 1:08 a.m. Oct. 14 in the 600 block of Sumner Street, according to coroner’s officials.

Bakersfield police responded to a ShotSpotter activation in the area, where they found Stevenson with an apparent gunshot wound. Stevenson was shot, the coroner’s office confirmed.

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Footage of the scene showed officers outside Pyrenees Cafe in the corner of Sumner and Kern Streets, with a body covered by a tarp on the curb outside the restaurant…

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