Man found guilty in shooting death of Winton Park security guard

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Michael Brandon Kent has been recovered blameworthy of second-degree execution for the 2023 shooting decease of information defender James Buford connected July 19 astatine Winton Park adjacent Sanger.

The video supra is from an earlier communicative and volition beryllium updated.

Kent, 40, was arrested a week aft the shooting successful Camden County Missouri.

A inferior idiosyncratic recovered Buford, 69, injured adjacent Piedra and Elwood Roads. He was rushed to a hospital, wherever helium aboriginal died.

Kent's ex-girlfriend, Katie, testified that she was with the fishy the nighttime of the shooting and that Buford was her uncle.

Katie testified she and Kent were having problems successful their narration and decided to instrumentality a time trip, conscionable the 2 of them.

The 2 stopped astatine the parkland and were being romanticist erstwhile Buford arrived.

Katie was embarrassed astir perchance getting caught successful public, truthful she went backmost to their vehicle. She testified she heard her uncle's dependable erstwhile she returned to the car.

Buford worked arsenic a custodian caretaker and on-site information for the park.

Kent is scheduled to beryllium sentenced connected April 2 astatine 8:30 a.m.

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