{"id":224768,"date":"2026-03-18T04:22:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224768\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:22:48","slug":"trial-date-scheduled-in-mcfarland-2024-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224768\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial date scheduled in McFarland 2024 homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A trial date has been set for a man accused of a deadly shooting in McFarland in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Michael Mendez, 23, on Monday was given a trial date of April 27, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He\u2019s charged with murder, discharging a firearm from a vehicle and possessing a firearm as a felon in the death of Xavier Lopez, 34, of McFarland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Aug. 24, 2024, police responded to a report of a shooting in the 200 block of East Perkins Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers found Lopez in the roadway, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to officials. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A trial date has been set for a man accused of a deadly shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,6599,328,955,102435,102434],"class_list":["post-224768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-deadly-shooting","tag-kget","tag-mcfarland","tag-michael-mendez","tag-xavier-lopez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224768","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=224768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}