Crime & Safety
Trial Date Set For Trio Of Suspects In Palm Springs Shooting Case
A man and his 34-year-old son, along with a 20-year-old woman, are being held to answer for the fatal shooting of a man last year.
INDIO, CA — A 2025 trial was confirmed Wednesday for three of five suspects in the fatal shooting of a 48-year-old man in North Palm Springs last year.
Case records indicate that Aisa Kirk Bailey, 20, along with North Palm Springs residents Mark Brian Barneck, 68, and his son Cody Barneck, 34, was held to answer during a trial-readiness conference Wednesday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio.
Bailey and the Barnecks were each charged in May 2023 with one felony count of murder, according to court records. Cody Barneck faces an additional felony count of being a convicted felon and narcotic addict in possession of a firearm.
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All three defendants are due back in court for a trial scheduled for Jan. 22, according to case records.
The other suspects are Conner Turley of Palm Springs and an unnamed boy from Desert Hot Springs, both of whom were juveniles at the time of the alleged murder.
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Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department's Palm Desert station responded at about 5 a.m. on May 16, 2023 to a report of a shooting in the 64000 block of 16th Avenue, according to Sgt. Ed Baeza. Upon arrival, they found Jeremy Abshear of North Palm Springs suffering from gunshot wounds.
"Deputies administered first aid and summoned for medical aid," Baeza said in a statement. "Paramedics arrived and, despite their efforts, the victim was pronounced deceased at the scene."
The sheriff's Central Homicide Unit responded to the scene and took over the investigation, according to Baeza.
Following their arrests later that week, Mark Barneck was booked into Blythe Jail, Cody Barneck into the Southwest Detention Center in Murrieta and Bailey into the John J. Benoit Detention Center in Indio, according to inmate records. They were all being held on $1 million bail bonds.
Due to his age at the time of the murder, Turley was booked into Riverside County Juvenile Hall, authorities said. The fifth suspect was 17 at the time of his arrest in March, according to the department, and he was also booked into Juvenile Hall. His identity was not released due to his age.
—City News Service
