BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — He was hoping to get a lesser charge than murder. After all, he told detectives, he didn’t make a habit of killing people. He didn’t want them to think he “blatantly offed somebody.”
Jeremy Daniel Cruzen told Bakersfield police detectives he acted in self-defense when he hit a man in the head with a rock in August 2014 by the Kern County Vietnam War Memorial. He said he was fighting off an attempted sexual assault.
The crime scene, however, indicated otherwise, investigators say in court documents…