BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — What started with the theft of $68.97 in beer from a Rite Aid in south Bakersfield led to an exchange of gunfire and a search through backyards, ending when the suspect emerged from a storage shed hours later.
Sheriff’s reports released this week indicate 18 rounds were fired during the April 15 incident — five apparently by Jeremy Pletcher, the theft suspect, and 13 by a deputy.
No one was wounded. A round that was determined to have been fired by Pletcher passed through the sliding glass door of a home and lodged in a couch, the reports say…