BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Bakersfield police have made an arrest in connection to a homicide investigation that began as a suspicious death last year.<\/p>\n
Investigators say 47-year-old Sukhwinder Kaur was found dead June 30 on Taylor Street. The coroner’s office later determined her cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and ruled it a homicide.<\/p>\n
Police say they were looking for 24-year-old Vishal Mattu for questioning before Mattu turned himself in at a police station in Yuba City on January 15 and told officials he had killed his mother.<\/p>\n
Detectives say Mattu admitted to the murder during an interview and was arrested.<\/p>\n
He is scheduled for preliminary hearings on May 8 and 11.<\/p>\n
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