{"id":303275,"date":"2026-05-06T22:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303275\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:41:08","slug":"man-convicted-in-2024-stockton-shooting-that-left-family-member-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303275\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted in 2024 Stockton shooting that left family member dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was convicted of second-degree murder in connection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/man-killed-in-stockton-shooting-police-investigating\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shooting<\/a> of a family member in Stockton in late 2024, prosecutors said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Mejia, 23, was found guilty of second-degree murder and attempted murder in connection with a shooting that killed 46-year-old Raymond Rodriguez on Nov. 9, 2024, in the area of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Aurora Street.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Mejia was taunting two of his relatives, both under 12 years old. Mejia swerved his vehicle toward them as they rode their bikes home.<\/p>\n<p>The children&#8217;s father then went to Mejia&#8217;s home to confront him. This is when prosecutors said Mejia opened fire. Rodriguez was struck three times, including twice as he tried to run away. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Mejia then fired shots into an occupied vehicle, where prosecutors said bullets narrowly missed a person inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said a jury rejected Mejia&#8217;s claims of self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>He faces 40 years to life, plus 11 years, prosecutors said. He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 29.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was convicted of second-degree murder in connection with a shooting of a family member in Stockton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,483],"class_list":["post-303275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-stockton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303275","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=303275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}