A Taft man arrested on attempted murder charges when two men were shot and wounded outside a Bakersfield night club more than two years ago has taken a plea deal, according to reports.<\/p>\n
Billy Burell Jr. 29, pleaded no contest to a charge of assault with a firearm and other counts, including the attempted murder charge, were dismissed.<\/p>\n
KGET-TV, citing police reports filed in connection with the case, said Bakersfield Police were patrolling near the El Portal West West Mexican Grill and Cantina about 2 a.m. on Nov. 26, 2003 when they heard gunshots and saw a large group of people running and yelling.<\/p>\n
KGET said the officers saw a man, later identified as Burell, holding a handgun and \u201cwalking briskly with a look of anger on his face in a scowl,\u201d the reports say.<\/p>\n
Police took Burell into custody and multiple witnesses identified him as the shooter.<\/p>\n
Security guards told police they broke up an earlier fight involving two males near the front entrance of the restaurant. A second fight occurred southeast of the restaurant soon after \u2014 followed by the shooting.<\/p>\n
Burell is scheduled to be sentenced on April 14 and faces three years in state prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Taft man arrested on attempted murder charges when two men were shot and wounded outside a Bakersfield…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,972,100,180],"class_list":["post-201322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201322","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=201322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}