{"id":458155,"date":"2026-09-09T10:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458155\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:48:23","slug":"suspect-faces-first-degree-murder-charges-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458155\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect faces first-degree murder charges | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kern County District Attorney\u2019s Office announced Tuesday it has filed first-degree murder charges against a man suspected of killing James Craig Turner in early August.<\/p>\n<p>The agency named the suspect as Umar Faheem Waldron, who it said killed Turner between Aug. 7 and Aug. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Waldron was found and arrested in Las Vegas on Aug. 18, after which time he was extradited to Kern County, the DA\u2019s Office stated.<\/p>\n<p>Waldron has a prior strike conviction for attempted murder in Los Angeles County, the DA&#8217;s Office reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kern County District Attorney\u2019s Office announced Tuesday it has filed first-degree murder charges against a man suspected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-458155","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\/458155","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=458155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}