{"id":397263,"date":"2026-07-14T00:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/397263\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:20:44","slug":"bakersfield-man-held-to-answer-on-murder-other-charges-in-clyde-st-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/397263\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield man held to answer on murder, other charges in Clyde St homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Tyrell Cooper, accused of killing a 66-year-old man more than two years ago, has been held to answer on murder, burglary and other charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The case against the 44-year-old Cooper will proceed after a judge on Friday determined there&#8217;s sufficient evidence against him. He remains in custody without bail and is due back in court July 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On March 3, 2024, officers were called to a home on Clyde Street where witnesses reported Cooper repeatedly pistol-whipped Harry Eugene Clark and threatened to kill other occupants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Clark was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Arrested soon after, Cooper told police he punched, bit and strangled Clark after hearing second-hand about remarks Clark made about him. But he also acknowledged sometimes hearing voices when no one was there, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cooper spent months receiving treatment in a state hospital after being found not competent, but has since been restored to competency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 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;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Tyrell Cooper, accused of killing a 66-year-old man more than two years ago, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,2731,159596,159595],"class_list":["post-397263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-cooper","tag-eugene-clark","tag-tyrell-cooper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397263","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=397263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}