Teen Robbed And Shot During Meeting To Buy Car In Fairfield

FAIRFIELD (CBS13) – A Bay Area pistillate has been arrested for allegedly shooting and sidesplitting a teen during what appears to beryllium a conveyance merchantability gone wrong.

On Thursday conscionable aft noon, Fairfield Police Dispatch received a telephone of a antheral down successful the 1000 artifact of Tyler Street. Fairfield Police and Fire went to the code and recovered a 19-year-old suffering antheral who had been shot, according to a constabulary section statement.

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The adjacent day, pursuing their investigation, constabulary arrested Kamaria Strange, 24, of San Pablo. She was booked into the Solano County Jail connected the complaint of homicide. She is scheduled to beryllium arraigned connected Tuesday afternoon.

The parents of the unfortunate identified him to CBS13 arsenic Michael Vincent Lopretta. His parents accidental Michael had saved his wealth to bargain a car. He responded to a cash-for-car merchantability successful Fairfield that was posted connected OfferUp, and erstwhile helium arrived astatine the gathering place, helium was robbed and shot, accidental police.

“We’re inactive trying to fig retired wherefore determination wherefore that peculiar location, due to the fact that it’s a truly engaged small neighborhood. It didn’t marque immoderate consciousness arsenic to wherefore there, but ne'er truly makes sense,” said Mike Lopretta, Lopretta’s father.

His mother, Jessica, said helium was excited astir buying the car. Lopretta regularly bought and flipped cars, truthful this merchantability was thing new. He did his research, according to his family, and saved his wealth for 2 years to spend the $9,000 terms tag connected the listing. The car was a 2013 achromatic BMW 528, and it was the astir costly car Lopretta had ever bought to flip.

“He loved it. There was a thrill of showing up with a car,” said Jessica Treat, Lopretta’s mother.

She said helium met with the seller, identified successful the OfferUp listing shared with CBS13 by Treat, arsenic Kamaria Strange, the time earlier constabulary accidental Strange changeable and killed him.

“He had said that helium went retired determination the time earlier to spell look astatine the car and that they were wholly affable to him,” said Treat.

Lopretta graduated from Bonita High School successful June and had a program for what came next. He was going to bargain a caller car, prevention wealth to get a spot with his woman and enactment towards becoming a past teacher. It was a vocation choice, Treat said, was peculiarly peculiar to him.

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“He said helium wanted to spell beryllium a past teacher due to the fact that helium could subordinate to the kids who are going to conflict due to the fact that sometimes helium struggled successful classes, too, not due to the fact that helium wasn’t smart,” said Treat, “He had his caput connected different things. He wanted to spell merchantability his shoes oregon spell flip a car oregon spell bent retired with his friends and spell instrumentality his woman to the movies and spell to the formation and cheque retired what’s [on] ESPN due to the fact that helium loves the Giants.”

Lopretta’s past speech with his ma was astir long-time Giants catcher Buster Posey’s retirement. Before helium near the location Thursday to bargain the vehicle, they talked astir Posey’s status announcement and however it marked the extremity of an epoch for Lopretta, who remembered Posey’s rookie play erstwhile helium was a kid.

His begetter added helium loved each sports and could recite immoderate sports-related statistic, particularly astir the Raiders, too.

These details, and stories of Lopretta, are blessed ones his household said, but they adhd it isn’t casual and the world of what has happened is inactive sinking in.

“It was amusive to perceive due to the fact that helium was truly excited and helium had a plan. And you talked to him a twelvemonth and a fractional ago, and helium was inactive benignant of a kid. And you talked to him 3 oregon 4 months agone and helium could spot wherever helium was transitioning to his future,” said his father, Mike.

Mike said helium and Lopretta’s ‘bonus-mom’, Michele, went to Tyler St. wherever Lopretta was found. While there, helium said they met a neighbour who recovered Lopretta and called 911. The aforesaid neighbour spoke to CBS13 and said erstwhile she recovered him, helium was alone, and she prayed implicit him until the constabulary arrived.

“Even though determination wasn’t a batch to share, it was inactive bully to perceive what it was similar from idiosyncratic that had their past moments with him,” said Mike.

Lopretta’s household said his friends are readying a vigil successful his grant astatine First Street Park successful Venetia.

Police are not releasing immoderate further information.

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The Fairfield Police Department reminds residents they connection a Safe Exchange Zone for residents to marque online purchases and speech transactions successful a monitored area. The Safe Exchange Zone is successful the parking adjacent to the Police Station connected Kentucky and Jackson. There are 2 designated parking spaces nether 24-hour surveillance.