BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A 24-year-old man faces a life term behind bars after being found guilty of murder in the shooting death of a man who was sleeping in a car at Beale Park.
A jury on Tuesday found Tyequez Baker guilty of first-degree murder, shooting at an occupied motor vehicle and being a felon in possession of a gun and ammunition, according to court records. His trial began earlier this month.
On Sept. 14, 2020, Glenn Earl Henderson Jr. was shot while asleep in his car. Baker was arrested three days later.
Prosecutors said there’s no indication Baker and Henderson, 26, knew each other, and the motive remains unknown.
Witnesses, Ring doorbell footage and DNA evidence on the weapon point to Baker as the shooter, prosecutor Joe Marcano said during trial.
The Ring footage shows Baker leave an apartment that morning wearing a mask and a hooded sweatshirt. He returned after the shooting without either item, Marcano said. Police found the murder weapon disassembled in the bathroom.