The Napa County District Attorney’s Office has filed murder charges against a 22-year-old Vallejo man in connection with the fatal shootings of a woman and a teenage girl.
John Richard Wesley Nicholson Jr. was arrested Monday when Napa police, SWAT officers and the sheriff’s office responded to a location in Vallejo.
The Napa County Prosecutor’s Office
He was arrested on suspicion of killing a 19-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl near the 400 block of Riverside Drive Saturday around 8:10 p.m.
a area resident said they heard an argument and then several loud “bangs”. One victim died at the scene, the other was pronounced dead at hospital.
The district attorney said Nicholson was also charged with a special allegation of personal and intentional discharge of a firearm causing death.
“It is further alleged that the crimes involved great bodily harm and a high degree of cruelty, brutality and callousness; that the crimes were carried out with planning, sophistication and professionalism,” the prosecutor said in a news release.
Nicholson already had an arraignment hearing, but he pleaded no contest and was assigned a public defender.
Investigators are looking into charges against two other suspects: Santa Rosa residents Jessica Whitten and Judith Adolph. Both are 19 and were arrested the day after Nicholson.
They are charged with aiding and abetting a crime.
