After a preliminary listening to earlier this week, a Solano County Superior Courtroom choose dominated there was sufficient proof to schedule additional proceedings in opposition to a brother and sister charged in connection to the late-October 2021 killing of a 19-year-old Carmel girl in Fairfield.
Decide William J. Pendergast then ordered Jessica Yesenia Quintanilla, 22, and Marco Antonio Quintanilla, 28, each of Pittsburg, to return to Division 11 for a held-to-answer arraignment at 9:30 a.m. April 24 within the Justice Constructing in Fairfield. Following that continuing, whether it is held, the choose will schedule different case-related issues, together with a jury trial date.
Jessica Quintanilla is represented by San Francisco-based legal professional William Alan Welch. She is being held with out bail on first-degree homicide prices within the Claybank Detention Facility in Fairfield.
Marco Quintanilla, who's represented by San Francisco legal professional Laurie D. Savill, is charged with being an adjunct within the case and violating his parole related to a felony conviction for tried homicide. He was beforehand being held on the Stanton Correctional Facility in Fairfield on $50,000 bail, however, on Feb. 2, 2022, he posted bail on the parole cost and was launched.
At their preliminary arraignment, they entered not-guilty pleas.
As beforehand reported, on Oct. 30, 2021, the Fairfield Police Division obtained a lacking individual report for Leilani Beauchamp, who was final seen leaving a Halloween social gathering in Sacramento earlier that morning with two active-duty airmen from Travis Air Pressure Base who have been dwelling off-base on Cascade Lane in Fairfield.
Fairfield officers labored with Travis AFB’s Workplace of Particular Investigations and the Monterey County Sheriff’s Workplace, as Beauchamp’s stays have been later found in Salinas.
Lt. Jausiah Jacobsen, the Fairfield Police Division’s public info officer on the time, mentioned warrants have been issued to go looking the Cascade Lane residence on Oct. 31.
Police investigators ended up arresting three in reference to the killing: the Quintanillas and Juan Parra-Peralta, 20 on the time, one of many airmen who lived in the home.
Courtroom data present that Parra-Peralta was not charged within the case and isn't in custody. The second airman Beauchamp left with was not publicly recognized and was not arrested.
Solano County Chief Deputy District Lawyer Paul Sequeira instructed reporters after Nov. 2 proceedings that the killing could have stemmed from a “love triangle state of affairs” because the investigation continued.
At the moment, Jacobsen mentioned it had not been confirmed how all of the events knew one another.