DA: Tipton man guilty of first-degree murder in Tulare

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 23-year-old antheral from Tipton was convicted of first-degree execution successful transportation with a 2023 shooting successful Tulare.

Officials accidental that astir 2 a.m. connected July 13, 2023, James Myron Mitchell of Tipton messaged a antheral to travel extracurricular a Tulare location earlier shooting him with a firearm from astir 90 feet away. The sidesplitting was caught connected adjacent surveillance cameras.

James Mitchell, 23 (image provided by the Tulare County Sheriff's Office)

After the shooting, officials accidental Mitchell fled the country and evaded authorities for astir six months. He was arrested by U.S. Marshals successful aboriginal January 2024 adjacent Chattanooga, Tennessee, and aboriginal extradited to California successful April of that year.

Following a proceedings successful Tulare County Superior Court, jurors recovered Mitchell blameworthy of first-degree murder. They besides upheld peculiar allegations that helium carried retired the sidesplitting portion lying successful hold and that helium personally discharged a firearm, causing death.

Mitchell is scheduled to beryllium sentenced connected October 10, 2025, and faces a imaginable beingness sentence.