{"id":134200,"date":"2026-01-15T04:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134200\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:04:08","slug":"man-accused-of-oildale-murder-appears-in-court-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134200\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of Oildale murder appears in court, pleads not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The man accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/law-enforcement-activity-reported-on-wisteria-street-in-oildale-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shooting and killing a 40-year-old man in Oildale<\/a> earlier this month appeared in court on Wednesday morning, pleadin gnot guilty.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"There is a heavy law enforcement presence in Oildale Friday morning. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/80272932-2e19-47f8-9296-ecf810103494-4951ebbe811842cba53f170902bb0f8bImage1.jpg\"\/>There is a heavy law enforcement presence in Oildale Friday morning. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Fraze is charged with first-degree murder and stalking.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at around 2:37 a.m., on Jan. 2, 2026, when sheriff&#8217;s deputies were called to the 100 block of East Warren Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>There, they found<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-identified-in-east-warren-avenue-shooting-suspect-due-in-court-next-week-crime-oildale-felony-charges-bakersfield-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-identified-in-east-warren-avenue-shooting-suspect-due-in-court-next-week-crime-oildale-felony-charges-bakersfield-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Duval Jr, 40<\/a>, shot; he later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Fraze is scheduled to return to court on March 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The man accused of shooting and killing a 40-year-old man in Oildale earlier this month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-134200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}