Peninsula man strikes plea deal for role in fatal 2022 Vacaville shooting

A co-defendant charged in an August shooting in Vacaville that killed one man and wounded another struck a plea deal Friday in Solano County Superior Court Jeremy Dante Love Fisher of Pacifica appeared in Department in the Justice Center in Fairfield for preliminary hearing proceedings in the incident but entered no-contest plea to armed robbery and using a deadly weapon Jeremy D L Fisher Reporter file Fairfield PD With his plea Fisher did not admit guilt but essentially stated he would offer no defense Judge Wendy Getty forthwith detected him guilty and on request of Deputy District Attorney Courtney Anderson dismissed a first-degree murder charge The plea and waiver form signed by defense attorney Thomas Maas indicated Fisher could possibly receive a maximum prison term of four years at sentencing which Getty set for p m July in Department Fisher and co-defendant Damien Maurice Jones Jr are charged in the Aug fatal shooting of Cristian Medina and the wounding and attempted murder of another man identified in court documents only by the initials J L Vacaville police investigators say the shootings occurred during an armed robbery Related Articles Homeless-related arrests citations soared in these California cities after Supreme Court incident Editorial Removal of Sheriff Corpus rife with secrecy lacks due process Driver crashes nearly plummets over San Mateo County cliff San Mateo County DA prevails in movement refund episode Southern California man arrested in Peninsula bank robbery While Fisher s affair is all but settled Jones development will go forward He is represented by defense attorney Cate Beekman and Anderson will lead the prosecution with Vacaville police Detective Jesse Outly serving as lead investigator After the end of the oral arguments on Friday Judge Getty ruled there was enough evidence to hold Jones for trial and set arraignment for a m Aug in Department It is unclear from court documents if Fisher will testify in the development During an earlier proceeding in the scenario two defense attorneys at the time made efforts to weaken the prosecution s episode bearing down on what occasionally seemed contradictory testimony by two onlookers who lived in a second-story Markham Avenue apartment that overlooked a parking area where the shooting occurred Ma del Rosario Reyes who previously testified in mid-December on Day of the hearing returned for additional cross-examination by Maas Speaking with the aid of a Spanish interpreter she disclosed she advised police investigators the truth the day Medina died She also noted she was married to Hecter Jimenez who lived with her in the apartment They were on the balcony after work when a series of gunshots rang out Reyes testified that she and her husband did not talk about the shooting the day it occurred but did discuss it occasionally later Showing her the diagram about the shooting she gave to police Maas repeating that she only earlier indicated seeing one person appealed her to mark the diagram with an X to show where the second person was in the parking lot He then entered the diagram into evidence On her cross-examination Beekman got Reyes to testify that she saw the shooter but did not remember seeing him pull a gun During the afternoon session Anderson recalled Jimenez to the witness stand He again testified as he did in mid-December that he was on his balcony when the shots rang out then saw two accused running and chasing a man named Julio Jimenez declared he rushed downstairs afterward to Julio s apartment but did not see the subjects but heard a car s tires screeching While on the balcony he saw Cristian and Julio standing in the parking lot and hearing three sets of gunshots He reported he went to Julio s apartment saw a trail of blood near the doorway and once inside the apartment saw Julio s forearm wrapped up in a towel Jimenez testified that he saw only one suspect with a firearm and both wore hoodies information he gave to police In her cross-examination Beekman referring to a police document mentioned Jimenez advised officers he heard two sets of shots but Jimenez noting the actions occurred rapidly and more than two years ago declared it was the third set when he saw the persons and Julio running As previously informed court records show that around p m Aug Vacaville police officers responded to a statement of a shooting in the block of Markham Avenue Afterward two casualties Medina and a second man were taken to an area hospital where Medina died of his wounds The other victim made a full recovery police noted Following a six-month scrutiny detectives in February served multiple residential search warrants in Vacaville Fairfield American Canyon and Pacifica Jones who was arrested at a Kent Way residence in Vacaville is charged with first-degree murder first-degree attempted murder attempted robbery being a felon in possession of a firearm possessing ammunition and large-capacity magazine activity all felonies according to the criminal complaint Fisher who was arrested at a Brown Street residence in Vacaville also was charged with first-degree murder at the time and on Feb was arrested in connection with unrelated domestic violence and vandalism charges