Detectives still need your help in the case about the shooting of a man found on a doorstep Wednesday. Detectives say the residents on Plaza Street didn't tell them the whole truth. They said the residents did know Simon Bautista Jr., though they told detectives they didn't.
Sheriff's officials say there's more to the story of 27-year-old Simon Bautista that they were told. Deputies say they found a suspect Wednesday night in the shooting of Bautista. His name is Catarino Ayala.
Detectives say Ayala said he had been threatened by Bautista in the past, so when Bautista showed up at his door forcing his way in early Wednesday morning, Ayala shot him once in the upper body. "But we're confident that Mr. Bautista was responsible for the carjacking and that Mr. Ayala was responsible for shooting Mr. Bautista later that morning at the home on Plaza Street," says Ray Pruitt, public information officer, kern county sheriff's department.
Detectives say they also discovered that Bautista was a suspect in a carjacking that took place early Wednesday morning near Plaza Street where Bautista died.
If you have any information call the sheriff's department at 861-3110 or Secret Witness 322-4040.
