{"id":227607,"date":"2026-03-19T23:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227607\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:21:58","slug":"three-18-year-olds-plead-not-guilty-in-shooting-death-of-man-at-beale-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227607\/","title":{"rendered":"Three 18-year-olds plead not guilty in shooting death of man at Beale Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Three 18-year-old suspects accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-hospitalized-in-critical-condition-after-late-night-shooting-at-beale-park-according-to-the-bakersfield-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shooting 38-year-old Mario Cortez Flores at Beale Park on March 13<\/a> pleaded not guilty this week, according to Kern County court records. Flores later died at Kern Medical.<\/p>\n<p>Brayden Ari Mendez, Joshua Ronald Holguin, and Alexa Marmolejo pleaded not guilty to murder and robbery on Tuesday, March 17, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUS REPORTING: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/3-arrested-in-beale-park-shooting-man-still-in-critical-condition-central-bakersfield-california-police-law-enforcement-stop-shotspotter-gunshot-kern-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3 arrested in Beale Park shooting that killed 1, coroner identifies man<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On  March 13, at around 11:33 p.m., officers responded to Beale Park for ShotSpotter activation in the area. They found Flores with a gunshot wound. He was taken to Kern Medical in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, officers said they saw a blacked-out vehicle fleeing the area. When officers pulled over the vehicle, Mendez, Holguin, and Marmolejo were found in the vehicle. A weapon was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were arrested the next day.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakerfield Police Department said that Flores died on Monday, March 16; however, according to the Kern County Coroner&#8217;s Office, the report said Flores died at Kern Medical on Sunday, March 15.<\/p>\n<p>Mendez, Holguin, and Marmolejo are due back in court on March 27, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Three 18-year-old suspects accused of shooting 38-year-old Mario Cortez Flores at Beale Park on March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-227607","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\/227607","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=227607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}