{"id":180061,"date":"2025-08-27T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/180061\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:40:09","slug":"man-charged-in-pacific-beach-shooting-death-ordered-to-stand-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/180061\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged in Pacific Beach shooting death ordered to stand trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO \u2013 A man who had a fistfight with another man before allegedly shooting him to death in a Pacific Beach condominium was ordered this week to stand trial for murder in October.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing testimony for several days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdcourt.ca.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Superior Court<\/a> Judge Joan Weber ordered Richard Kyle Herrman, 33, to stand trial for the Jan. 26 death of Gabriel Fergus, 51.<\/p>\n<p>Weber set a trial date for Oct. 14 after Herrman pleaded not guilty. She also ordered him to stand trial for possession of a firearm by a felon and being a person prohibited from possessing ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>Both men knew each other, and a neighbor said Herrman\u2019s parents owned the unit in the 1600 block of Chalcedony Street. <\/p>\n<p>The neighbor, a woman named Stacy, said Fergus would ring a buzzer and someone would let him inside, or he would hop a fence to get in.<\/p>\n<p>Stacy recalled the Jan. 26 incident at 10:10 p.m., in which she called 911 after hearing a gunshot after Fergus was shot. She identified Herrman as living in the unit, and also identified Fergus from a photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Police detectives testified that the two men engaged in a fist fight before the shooting. Fergus was shot once in the chest, and autopsy photos were shown in the preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n<p>After Herrman was ordered to stand trial, his attorney, Andrew Feaster, asked Weber to reduce his bail, which drew an incredulous response from the judge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just bound your client over on a murder charge. I\u2019m not going to be reducing bail,\u201d said Weber.<\/p>\n<p>Herrman remains in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdsheriff.gov\/Home\/Components\/FacilityDirectory\/FacilityDirectory\/168\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky Mountain Detention Facility<\/a> on $2 million bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2013 A man who had a fistfight with another man before allegedly shooting him to death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":180062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,4219,101751,9620,24152,101752,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-180061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-gabriel-fergus","13":"tag-murder","14":"tag-pacific-beach","15":"tag-richard-kyle-herrman","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-sandiego","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115101487845912884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}