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A man was killed in a boating accident at the Buena Vista Aquatic Recreation Area east of Taft Saturday.
A second man has been arrested in connection with the death.
Kern County Chief Park Ranger Robert Boardman said in a press release that Justin Ennis, 23, of Bakersfield, has been charged with operating a boat under the influence and manslaughter.
The victim was identified as Salvador Rodriguez 28, also of Bakersfield.
According to information from Boardman and the Kern County Sheriff-Coroner, park rangers were notified of a boating accident on Lake Webb at 5:17 p.m.
The rangers responded and found Rodriguez suffering from major injuries.
He was later pronounced dead at the scene.
The Sheriff-Coroner said only that Rodriguez was the operator of a boat that was struck by another boat.
Further information on the incident was not immediately available.
Ennis was booked into the Kern County Jail on three felony counts and a no-bail parole hold.
Ennis was convicted for his part in a highly publicized murder case involving a former Taft College professor.
Ennis pleaded no contest to one count of assault with force likely to produce great bodily harm in connection with the 2008 death of Lora Shine, the girlfriend of Jim Wyatt, then an automotive technology professor at Taft College.
Shine was tied to a chair with duct tape in Wyatt's Bakersfield home and died of suffocation.
Ennis was sentenced to two years in state prison in April 2009.
Wyatt pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 4 years in state prison for his role in Shine's death.
A man was killed in a boating accident at the Buena Vista Aquatic Recreation Area east of Taft Saturday.
A second man has been arrested in connection with the death.
Kern County Chief Park Ranger Robert Boardman said in a press release that Justin Ennis, 23, of Bakersfield, has been charged with operating a boat under the influence and manslaughter.
The victim was identified as Salvador Rodriguez 28, also of Bakersfield.
According to information from Boardman and the Kern County Sheriff-Coroner, park rangers were notified of a boating accident on Lake Webb at 5:17 p.m.
The rangers responded and found Rodriguez suffering from major injuries.
He was later pronounced dead at the scene.
The Sheriff-Coroner said only that Rodriguez was the operator of a boat that was struck by another boat.
Further information on the incident was not immediately available.
Ennis was booked into the Kern County Jail on three felony counts and a no-bail parole hold.
Ennis was convicted for his part in a highly publicized murder case involving a former Taft College professor.
Ennis pleaded no contest to one count of assault with force likely to produce great bodily harm in connection with the 2008 death of Lora Shine, the girlfriend of Jim Wyatt, then an automotive technology professor at Taft College.
Shine was tied to a chair with duct tape in Wyatt's Bakersfield home and died of suffocation.
Ennis was sentenced to two years in state prison in April 2009.
Wyatt pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 4 years in state prison for his role in Shine's death.
