{"id":300062,"date":"2026-05-05T01:24:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300062\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:24:26","slug":"kern-county-man-convicted-of-murder-in-2022-tobacco-store-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300062\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County man convicted of murder in 2022 tobacco store robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A Kern County jury convicted Cesar Vasquez of first-degree murder for shooting and killing a security guard during a robbery at an Oildale tobacco store in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Vasquez shot and killed security guard Odulio Rodriguez during the robbery. The district attorney says the store hired Rodriguez after Vasquez robbed the same business weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>A customer testified Rodriguez saved her life by intervening during the second robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Vasquez faces life in prison without parole. A judge will sentence him on June 2.<\/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 A Kern County jury convicted Cesar Vasquez of first-degree murder for shooting and killing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,127000,49340,162,127001,127002],"class_list":["post-300062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-cesar-vasquez","tag-kern-county-murder","tag-kern-county-news","tag-odulio-rodriguez","tag-oildale-tobacco-store-robbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300062","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=300062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}