{"id":20400,"date":"2025-10-24T00:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/20400\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:03:07","slug":"two-men-sentenced-to-life-terms-in-2022-fatal-shooting-on-m-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/20400\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men sentenced to life terms in 2022 fatal shooting on M Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Two men have been sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in the fatal shooting of<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-found-dead-from-gunshot-wound-on-m-street-identified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> 30-year-old Errol Scorzac III<\/a> in 2022, according to Kern County court officials. <\/p>\n<p>Anthony Guiterrez received a sentence of 15 years to life, plus an additional three years in prison. Andrew Espinoza was sentenced to 15 years to life, with an extra 3 years and 8 months added to his term, a Kern County Superior Court official confirmed.<br \/>PREVIOUS REPORTING<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-found-dead-from-gunshot-wound-on-m-street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">: Man found dead from gunshot wound on M Street<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man was found dead from a gunshot injury by Bakersfield Police Officers on M St in Bakersfield. KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/579c9dbc-e2ec-4625-a367-03b1a0f74194-large16x9_MicrosoftTeamsimage182.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A man was found dead from a gunshot injury by Bakersfield Police Officers on M St in Bakersfield. KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>Court records show that Guiterrez was convicted of murder and of participating in a street gang on Sept. 24, 2025, after pleading guilty. A count of an aggravation of great violence, great bodily harm, or other acts of a high degree of cruelty was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Espinoza pleaded no contest to a murder charge and participation in a street gang on Sept. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>On January 26, 2022, Bakersfield police officers responded to a welfare check on a person lying on the ground in the 900 block of M Street. Officers arrived and found Scorzac dead at the scene with a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County coroner said an autopsy revealed that Scorzac&#8217;s cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds and the manner was homicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Two men have been sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in the fatal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-20400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400","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=20400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}