A Solano County Superior Court judge on Friday reset some court dates, including a jury trial, for a 28-year-old San Pablo woman charged with a 2021 fatal shooting in Fairfield.
During the morning session in Department 12, assigned Judge Peter Ottenweller ordered Kamaria Isis Davison Strange to return to face jurors at 9 a.m. Jan. 14 in the Justice Center in Fairfield, a change from the earlier Jan. 8 date. The trial is expected to last 12 days, according to official court documents.
Ottenweller also rescheduled a pretrial matter, a trial management conference, for 8:30 a.m. Dec. 12.
Alternate Public Defender Sean G. Swartz represented Strange, who faced a two-day preliminary hearing in April 2023. Angelica Leonardo, through the Alternate Public Defender’s Office, appeared as co-counsel. Deputy District Attorney Bill Ainsworth leads the prosecution.
Strange, a previously convicted felon, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and second-degree robbery for the killing of Michael Vincent Lopretta, 19, of Benicia.
She was arrested Nov. 5, 2021, at the San Pablo Police Department, then booked into Solano County Jail later that night on suspicion of killing Lopretta in the 1000 block of Tyler Street.
Fairfield Police Sgt. John Devine said at the time that dispatchers received a call at 12:19 p.m. Nov. 4 about “a man down on Tyler Street.”
Upon arrival, officers found Lopretta, who was not breathing, with blood coming from his mouth and had suffered a gunshot wound.
Detectives later determined that Lopretta had responded to a car-for-sale advertisement on a website, OfferUp, that turned into a fatal robbery.
Strange was arrested again Dec. 1, 2021, at Solano County Jail, on a bail bond surrender on three charges: making a terrorist threat, a felony; battery and brandishing a firearm, misdemeanors. Her bail on those charges was set at $150,000.
The Solano County District Attorney’s Office filed its complaint against Strange on Nov. 9, 2021. In an earlier amended criminal complaint, the wording indicated that the manner in which the crime was carried out “indicates planning, sophistication, or professionalism.”
Strange, who is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs 135 pounds, remains in the Stanton Correctional Facility in Fairfield without bail on the murder charge.
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