{"id":333637,"date":"2026-05-27T00:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333637\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T00:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:21:08","slug":"bakersfield-man-charged-in-taylor-street-stabbing-death-set-for-competency-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333637\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield man charged in Taylor Street stabbing death set for competency hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Bakersfield man accused of stabbing <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\">60-year-old Michael Gauthier<\/a> to death on Taylor Street last month is scheduled to undergo a competency exam next month, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Jerome Andreas, 34, is set for the exam on June 30, 2026, according to the Kern County court website.<\/p>\n<p>Andreas is charged with the <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/homicide-investigation-underway-after-60-year-old-man-found-dead-in-bakersfield-apartment-taylor-street-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">death of Michael Gauthier, who was stabbed in the 600 block of Taylor Street on April 15, 2026, at around 6:18 a.m.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Records also show Andreas was in custody at the Kern County Justice Facility in connection with a separate robbery offense reported on April 27, 2026, in the 10 block of Oak Street.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-jailed-for-robbery-charged-in-taylor-street-apartment-killing-in-bakersfield-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS REPORTING: Man jailed for robbery, charged in Taylor Street apartment killing in Bakersfield<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police said 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>According to the warrant, Andreas was described as having \u201chad pentagrams drawn on his palms, \u2018666\u2019 written on his wallet, and multiple tattoos depicting pentagrams and devils on his arm, along with the handwritten words \u2018Kill me\u2019 drawn on his back with another star upside down.\u201d The description was noted because documents said the victim, who was developmentally disabled, had crosses in his home and was recently baptized.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Documents said a DNA test found that a swab from the knife blade in Andreas\u2019 backpack contained DNA from Andreas and the victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Bakersfield man accused of stabbing 60-year-old Michael Gauthier to death on Taylor Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-333637","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\/333637","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=333637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}