OAKLAND — After only a day of deliberations, an Alameda County jury convicted a Fairfield man of homicide in a July 2021 capturing the place the sufferer was shot six occasions, court docket data present.
LaTrail White, 28, was convicted of murdering Travis Ward, together with enhancements to be used of a firearm. He faces 50 years to life in jail and is about to be sentenced on October 13, in keeping with prosecutors.
The decision was reached Sept. 14, only a day after White’s two-week trial ended. Police say GPS data and a distinctive-looking Mercedes linked White to the crime. His legal professional argued that proof was speculative and that White was harmless.
Ward was shot and killed round 9 a.m. on July 24, 2021, within the 1600 block of Foothill Boulevard. Police say a Mercedes Benz pulled up subsequent to him and an individual within the automobile shot him within the chest, buttocks and hip.
Two weeks later, Contra Costa Sheriff’s deputies pulled over White, in a similar-looking Mercedes with a lacking emblem, on the Gilman Road offramp of Interstate 80 in Berkeley. They discovered an AR-10-style rifle and arrested him on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm, court docket data present.
“LaTrail is extraordinarily disillusioned within the verdict. His combat in opposition to these prices will proceed on the appellate degree,” White’s legal professional, Ernie Castillo, stated in an e mail to this information group.
LaTrail White is the son of Apondo White Sr., a reputed East Bay crack cocaine kingpin who was shot and killed in Oakland in 1994 in a still-unsolved murder.