BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A mistrial was declared Tuesday after a jury hung on charges of murder and attempted murder in the trial of a man accused of killing one man and injuring another in a stabbing in southwest Bakersfield.<\/p>\n
Adam Danforth, 41, is due back in court Nov. 13 to set a retrial date, court records show.<\/p>\n
On Jan. 10, 2024,\u00a0David Robert Stroup, 44, and Jamie Cox were stabbed inside a home on Anacostia Way in southwest Bakersfield. Stroup died and Cox survived.<\/p>\n
Cox told 17 News that Danforth entered the home and began attacking him without saying a word. Stroup, his roommate, intervened, Cox said, and he ran for help.<\/p>\n
Police arrived to find Stroup unresponsive in a pool of blood in the front doorway. He was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Danforth was arrested days later at the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n
Defense attorney Tony Lidgett has argued the house where the stabbing occurred was well-known as a place where drugs were sold \u2014 and that Cox may have provoked the attack.<\/p>\n
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