A Kern County jury has sentenced Christopher Tovar to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend in Bakersfield.
Tovar was found guilty of first-degree murder with a special circumstance of firing from a vehicle in the October 4, 2024, shooting death of Rudy Herrera. Herrera had recently started dating Tovar’s ex-girlfriend.
On the day of the shooting, Tovar asked Lacey Guerra to help him find Herrera. The two tracked down Herrera to a friend’s house on Panama Street in Bakersfield…