{"id":306415,"date":"2026-05-08T19:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/306415\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:05:07","slug":"man-jailed-for-robbery-charged-in-taylor-street-apartment-killing-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/306415\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for robbery, charged in Taylor Street apartment killing in Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 34-year-old man, who was already in custody for robbery, was <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-found-dead-in-bakersfield-apartment-identified-coroner-confirms-fatal-stabbing-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arrested for allegedly stabbing and killing a man<\/a> last month at an apartment complex on Taylor Street.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-found-dead-in-bakersfield-apartment-identified-coroner-confirms-fatal-stabbing-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man found dead in Bakersfield apartment identified; Coroner confirms fatal stabbing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said on May 5th, 2026, detectives with the Bakersfield Police Department\u2019s Robbery and Homicide Division obtained an arrest warrant for 34-year-old Jerome Andreas of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>Andreas is charged for murder of a man in the 600 block of Taylor Street on April 15th, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said on Wednesday, April 15th, 2026, at around 6:18 a.m., officers were called to the 600 block of Taylor Street for a report of an unknown situation, possibly a medical event inside an apartment.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found the body of 60-year-old Michael A Gauthier in the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s report said Gauthier was stabbed and died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Andreas was in-custody at the Kern County Justice Facility regarding a separate robbery offense that happened on April 27th, 2026, in the 10 block of Oak Street.<\/p>\n<p>Due to Andreas already being in custody, the murder arrest warrant was provided to KCSO staff at the Justice Facility.<\/p>\n<p>There are no outstanding suspects in the murder investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 34-year-old man, who was already in custody for robbery, was arrested for allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-306415","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\/306415","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=306415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}