BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A Kern County jury has found 28-year-old Kira Conerly-Burton II guilty of first-degree murder in the 2022 shooting death of Michael Rico Stubbs, 32, in central Bakersfield.
The conviction, delivered Wednesday, also includes a charge of shooting at an occupied motor vehicle. Conerly-Burton now faces life in prison without parole, with sentencing scheduled for next month.
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The shooting happened on the evening of March 22, 2022, at the intersection of California Avenue and P Street. Stubbs was found inside a car with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to prosecutors, Stubbs was stopped at a red light when Conerly-Burton pulled up beside him and opened fire, striking him in the head and neck. Surveillance footage revealed that Conerly-Burton had been tailing Stubbs’ vehicle for several blocks before the shooting.
After the incident, Conerly-Burton fled to Los Angeles and later traveled to North Dakota, where authorities arrested him several months later.
