Two men who are suspected in the fatal shooting of a 48-year-old man in North Palm Springs earlier this week were being held in jail without bail Friday.
North Palm Springs residents Mark Brian Barneck, 66, and Cody Barneck, 33, were arrested at around 4 a.m. Wednesday at Louise Street in Desert Hot Springs on suspicion of murder, according to inmate records.
Deputies from the Palm Desert sheriff’s station responded at around 5 a.m. Tuesday to a report of a shooting in the 64000 block of 16th Avenue, according to Sgt. Ed Baeza of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
Upon arrival, they found Jeremy M. 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 department’s Central Homicide Unit subsequently responded to the scene and assumed the investigation, according to Baeza. The Barnecks were subsequently identified as suspects in connection with the homicide investigation.
They’re being held without bail at the John J. Benoit Detention Center in Indio, according to inmate records. The relationship between the two suspects was not immediately clear.
Anyone with additional information on the fatal shooting was asked to call homicide investigator J. Manjarrez at 951-955-1600.