After a five-week Solano County Superior Court trial and three days of deliberations, a jury on Tuesday found the Quintanilla siblings guilty of respective charges related to the Oct. 30, 2021, gun…
Jessica Yesenia Quintanilla, 24, of Pittsburg, seen in Department 11 of Solano County Superior Court during a November 2021 arraignment, faces 25 years to life when sentenced fpr the gunshot slaying of Leilani Beauchamp, 19, on Oct. 30, 2021. Jessica Yesenia Quintanilla
His attorney, Laurie D. Savill of San Francisco, also requested a polling of jurors, and the verdict was unanimous. A sentencing date remains pending for the Quintanillas and will not occur until the court receives presentencing reports and, for Marco Quintanilla, a report from the Solano County Probation Department.
She was found guilty of shooting Beauchamp on the morning of Oct. 30 while she was lying in bed with Juan Parra-Peralta, an airman stationed at Travis Air Force Base, with whom Quintanilla once had a romantic relationship. Shapiro repeatedly pressed Quintanilla about her memory of what happened just before a single bullet entered and exited the right side of Beauchamp’s head, killing her.
Shapiro asserted that Quintanilla told Parra-Peralta not to take Beauchamp to a mid-October sideshow, a demonstration of automotive stunts, often in a street intersection.While on the witness stand, Quintanilla admitted that both she and Parra-Peralta possessed firearms, Glock semi-automatic handguns, at that time, but the guns remained in Parra-Peralta’s custody.
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