BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A mistrial was declared Tuesday after a jury hung on charges of murder and attempted murder in the trial of a man accused of killing one man and injuring another in a stabbing in southwest Bakersfield.

Adam Danforth, 41, is due back in court Nov. 13 to set a retrial date, court records show.

On Jan. 10, 2024, David Robert Stroup, 44, and Jamie Cox were stabbed inside a home on Anacostia Way in southwest Bakersfield. Stroup died and Cox survived.

Cox told 17 News that Danforth entered the home and began attacking him without saying a word. Stroup, his roommate, intervened, Cox said, and he ran for help.

Police arrived to find Stroup unresponsive in a pool of blood in the front doorway. He was declared dead at the scene.

Danforth was arrested days later at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Defense attorney Tony Lidgett has argued the house where the stabbing occurred was well-known as a place where drugs were sold — and that Cox may have provoked the attack.

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