Sheriff's deputy kills former football star in front of son

Northeast Bakersfield News
Jul. 15, 2011


A man who played running back for the Cincinnati Bengals from 1978 to 1980 was shot and killed by a Kern County Sheriff's deputy in front of his 19-year-old son.

It happened early Sunday at the Fastrip store, 2200 Nile St., in northeast Bakersfield.

According to the Kern County Sheriff's Office, a group of teenagers were outside of the Fastrip trying to get adults to buy alcohol for them. When deputies arrived, they approached 56-year-old David Lee Turner, who was leaving the store with his son.

Turner's son was too shaken to speak with Eyewitness News on Sunday, but he told his sister what he witnessed.

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