{"id":32457,"date":"2025-10-31T21:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/32457\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T21:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:02:22","slug":"competency-exam-ordered-for-bakersfield-man-83-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/32457\/","title":{"rendered":"Competency exam ordered for Bakersfield man, 83, charged with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Criminal proceedings were suspended and a competency exam ordered Friday for an 83-year-old Bakersfield man charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Michael Roland Wildrick is scheduled to undergo the exam before Nov. 20, when he\u2019s due back in court for a ruling on whether he\u2019s competent to stand trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wildrick was arrested in the September shooting death of Emma Yoconda Wildrick, 85. She was pronounced dead at the scene in the 11000 block of Tulane Park Place in southwest Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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\" 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 Criminal proceedings were suspended and a competency exam ordered Friday for an 83-year-old Bakersfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,23517,23521,23518,23519,328,23520,23516],"class_list":["post-32457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-competency-exam","tag-competent-to-stand-trial","tag-criminal-proceedings","tag-emma-yoconda-wildrick","tag-kget","tag-man-charged-with-murder","tag-michael-roland-wildrick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32457","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=32457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}