{"id":283179,"date":"2026-04-24T03:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/283179\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:39:07","slug":"family-honors-wendale-davis-20-years-after-fatal-drive-by-shooting-case-unsolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/283179\/","title":{"rendered":"Family honors Wendale Davis 20 years after fatal drive-by shooting; case unsolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Two decades after <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=Wendale+Davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wendale Davis<\/a> was killed in a drive-by shooting, his family returned to Union Cemetery to honor his memory with prayer and a memorial.<\/p>\n<p>It has been 20 years since Davis, who was 16, was shot and killed while sitting in his car. His family has held a vigil at his gravesite every year since his death.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/relatives-honor-wendale-davis-19-years-after-murder-reward-is-now-increased-to-100000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reward was increased to $100,000 last year<\/a> for information in the case that leads to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The case remains unsolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Two decades after Wendale Davis was killed in a drive-by shooting, his family returned to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-283179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283179","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=283179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}