Coroner identifies Wasco man who died in shooting

Jan. 8—The Kern County Coroner Office deemed a Wasco man's death from gunshot wounds a homicide after he was struck multiple times in October 2022 and died at Adventist Health Bakersfield on Jan. 9, 2023. According to the coroner's office, Edgar Perez Mendez, 31, of Wasco was shot on Iris Street in Wasco around 9 p.m. on Oct. 24, 2022. He died in the hospital a few months later. The coroner's …