Courtesy KGET
TEHACHAPI, CA (KUZZ) — A Tehachapi man has made a court appearance after being charged with killing his grandfather.
A preliminary hearing was held Tuesday for Skyler Higginbotham, 23, who is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Norman E. Higginbotham, 83, whose burned corpse was found inside a shipping container on a vacant property near Banducci Road and Alps Drive in June 2025.
Higginbotham was arrested in July 2025 after allegedly admitting to friends that he murdered his grandfather.




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