{"id":225373,"date":"2026-03-18T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225373\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:01:15","slug":"3-teens-plead-not-guilty-in-deadly-beale-park-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225373\/","title":{"rendered":"3 teens plead not guilty in deadly Beale Park shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Three 18-year-olds pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and other charges stemming from a shooting at Beale Park over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Brayden Mendez, Alexa Marmolejo and Joshua Holguin are each charged with murder, conspiracy and robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The Coroner&#8217;s Office said 38-year-old Mario Cortez Flores died in the hospital two days after being shot at the park late Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mendez, Marmolejo and Holguin are set to return to court for preliminary hearings later this month.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Three 18-year-olds pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and other charges stemming from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[102674,151,155,153,89900,152,102675,102676,102677,62479,162,102262],"class_list":["post-225373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-alexa-marmolejo","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-murder","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-beale-park-shooting","tag-brayden-mendez","tag-joshua-holguin","tag-kern-county-homicide","tag-kern-county-news","tag-mario-cortez-flores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225373","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=225373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}