BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — A Kern County jury convicted Cesar Vasquez of first-degree murder for shooting and killing a security guard during a robbery at an Oildale tobacco store in 2022.
Prosecutors say Vasquez shot and killed security guard Odulio Rodriguez during the robbery. The district attorney says the store hired Rodriguez after Vasquez robbed the same business weeks earlier.
A customer testified Rodriguez saved her life by intervening during the second robbery.
Vasquez faces life in prison without parole. A judge will sentence him on June 2.
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