A Solano County Superior Court trial date remains pending for an alleged Vallejo gang member accused of fatally shooting a man in 2017, one of several gang-related fatal shootings by four other gang members between 2017 and 2018 in Vallejo.
Damaria Tijaraye Haskins, 23, a reputed member of the 200 Westwood gang and charged with the fatal shooting of Erik Green and the attempted murder of his brother, Eian, was scheduled to appear for a readiness conference and trial setting June 11 in Department 11.
However, Judge William J. Pendergast has rescheduled those matters, court records shows, and ordered Haskins to return at 8:30 a.m. July 27 in the Justice Center in Fairfield. Court records available online did not indicate why the proceedings were rescheduled.
Haskins was indicted in November 2018 by a Solano County grand jury for the murder and the attempted murder. He is represented by Fairfield criminal defense attorney Carol Long.
Two other members of the 200 Westwood gang accused of shooting and killing one man in 2017 and another in 2018 are scheduled for a November jury trial in Department 11. They are Nickolas James Howland, 23, and Steven Tezel Sanderson, 20, charged with the murder of DeMario Williams in September 2017 and Coy Lacy Jr. in January 2018.
Pendergast also has ordered Howland and Sanderson to return for some pretrial matters, including a trial readiness conference, at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 27 and a trial management conference at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 28.
When Howland returns Nov. 1 for the jury trial, his lawyer, Fairfield criminal defense attorney Curtis Boyd, will ask Pendergast to “sever” the trial, or, in other words, order one for Howland, another for Sanderson, who is represented by longtime Solano County criminal defense attorney John Coffer.
Besides Howland and Sanderson, a third man, Desean Lamar Johnson, 25, is also charged with the January 2018 murder of Lacy, 30.
Johnson also faces a trial setting and a readiness conference at 8:30 a.m. July 29. He also faces the same proceedings, plus a motion to suppress evidence, at 9 a.m. Aug. 2. Johnson is represented by criminal defense attorney Tim A. Pori.
Gang member Tiquon Ramon Hicks Jr., 24, convicted in January last year, was sentenced on March 5, 2020, to more than 27 years in state prison for the second-degree murder of Williams.
Deputy District Attorney Eric Charm led the prosecution in the Hicks case and is the lead prosecutor in the pending murder trials.
In December 2019, Pendergast agreed to sever all but one of the remaining pending trials, Howland and Sanderson’s.
The 200 Westwood criminal street gang takes its name from their Vallejo neighborhood, police investigators say.
Trial date still pending for Vallejo gang member for 2017 murder - Vallejo Times-Herald
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