{"id":279418,"date":"2026-04-22T00:32:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279418\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:32:45","slug":"2-charged-with-murder-in-knotts-st-deadly-shooting-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279418\/","title":{"rendered":"2 charged with murder in Knotts St deadly shooting: docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Two alleged gang members have been charged with murder in connection to a deadly shooting on Knotts Street, court records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Matthew Ryan Rodriguez, 21, and Donterrence DeShawn Frank Brown, 22, were charged Monday in a shooting that wounded two people, one fatally, April 13 on Knotts Street just west of North Baker Street, according to court records and sheriff\u2019s officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Arthur Deray Ward, 30, was pronounced dead at a hospital, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rodriguez and Brown are members of the West Side Crips, according to a court filing, \u201cand the murder was carried out to further the activities of the criminal street gang.\u201d<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 Two alleged gang members have been charged with murder in connection to a deadly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[120410,151,153,152,29188,6599,120407,328,120409,120408],"class_list":{"0":"post-279418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-arthur-deray-ward","9":"tag-bakersfield","10":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","11":"tag-bakersfield-news","12":"tag-court-records","13":"tag-deadly-shooting","14":"tag-frank-brown","15":"tag-kget","16":"tag-knotts-street","17":"tag-ryan-rodriguez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279418","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=279418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}