The 911 call recording from the night of the shooting is available for listening by using the player at lower right. BE AWARE: This recording may be disturbing for some people. See below to read the full story in this week’s paper.

By Patric Hedlund, TME

Family, neighbors and friends traveled through a driving El Niño rainstorm on January 5 for the 8:30 a.m. preliminary hearing in Bakersfield about the murder of Benito Carrillo, Jr., 24 of Frazier Park and Lake of the Woods.

Steve Gilmore, 58 of South Drive in Lebec is being held in Kern County’s Lerdo facility on $1,000,000 bail for allegedly shooting Carrillo the night of December 17, 2015 in front of Gilmore’s family home.

Gilmore has been in custody since that night. He appeared in court wearing a…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

Photo captions:

This small shrine has been set up on South Drive in Lebec near where Benito Carrillo died. It is placed across the street from Steve Gilmore’s home. Gilmore himself has been in jail since the night of the shooting. He is being held on $1 million bail.

Steve Gilmore in custody at his pre-preliminary hearing last week. For his preliminary hearing, he had shaved his hair.

To see full stories with photos, please purchase a copy of the newspaper at many locations (click this link for a list) throughout the Mountain Communities.

Or, have your newspaper delivered via mail and include internet access. Just call 661-245-3794. Classified ads are FREE to paid subscribers! See front page at www.mountainenterprise.com for details.

The e-Edition is available now with full photos and stories at The Mountain Enterprise e-Edition

(subscriber login required)

This is part of the January 8, 2016 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

Have an opinion on this matter? We'd like to hear from you.