A 35-year-old man is in the Bakersfield jail charged with the murder of his ex-girlfriend in Tehachapi. Twenty-three-year-old Cheyenne Watkins was shot in the head in June at a house on Kid Place, her sister says the family has been pushing for action since it happened and are glad justice is finally being served. “It has been a long, drawn-out four months.” Kern County Sheriff’s detectives arrested Alejandro Sanchez Friday in Santa Monica with the help of local police, he’s also facing charges for leading them on a wild chase in a stolen vehicle.

Suzanne Grant