Fairfield guy purchased to stand demo on murder cost in Oakland fatal taking pictures

OAKLAND — A Fairfield person was requested to stand demo on expenses that he murdered a 48-yr-aged Oakland guy in a July 2021 deadly capturing, in a circumstance based in component on a Mercedes Benz with a missing emblem.

LaTrail White, 27, faces prices of murdering Travis Ward in the early morning travel-by taking pictures. At his late April preliminary hearing, Oakland police testified that telephone GPS records placed White in the area of the murder and that two weeks afterwards he was arrested in Berkeley while driving a distinctive motor vehicle that matched surveillance video clip of the capturing.

Ward was shot and killed around 9 a.m. on July 24, 2021, in the 1600 block of Foothill Boulevard. Law enforcement say a Mercedes Benz with a distinctive emblem pulled up subsequent to him and shot him in the upper body, buttocks and hip.

Two months later, Contra Costa Sheriff’s deputies pulled above White at the Gilman Avenue offramp of Interstate 80 in Berkeley, in a equivalent-searching Mercedes with a missing emblem. They also located an AR-10-design rifle and arrested him on suspicion of becoming a felon in possession of a firearm, courtroom records demonstrate.

Police didn’t deal with the suspected motive for Ward’s killing, but they said they investigated other suspects, together with a further man who they say was in the area shortly right before the shooting.

Ernie Castillo, a Bay Space protection legal professional representing White, filed a movement to dismiss the circumstance on June 27. A choose has still to rule on it. Castillo argued at the preliminary listening to that the scenario towards White lacks agency evidence, noting two eyewitnesses failed to recognize White as the shooter.

“I feel this whole case is crafted on speculation,” Castillo reported.

Alameda County Deputy District Lawyer John Brouhard, who is prosecuting the scenario, certain Judge Michael Gaffey to get White to stand trial.

“What Mr. Castillo phone calls speculation, I connect with inferences that are permitted by the circumstantial proof,” Brouhard reported, according to the hearing transcript.

At the hearing, Oakland police Det. Michael Jaeger testified that White was interviewed and denied being in the place. He also claimed the cell phone he was uncovered with belonged to a person else, and police observed a particular person with that name lived close by the taking pictures scene, court docket data show.

A trial date has not however been set. White continues to be in jail on a no-bail hold.