Two men who are accused of killing a woman in a drive-by shooting outside a house party in La Jolla in 2019 got a May 2023 trial date on Oct. 18 after one of them got a new attorney.
Nina Silver, 20, was killed and two others were wounded on June 23, 2019, around 12:30 a.m. while people from the party were standing in an alley in the 7500 block of Cuvier Street.
Both Odyssey Carrillo, now 21, and Malik Joshua Campbell, now 23, waived their right to have a speedy trial when they appeared before San Diego Superior Court Judge Kimberlee Lagotta.
“I am new to the case,” said attorney Jeremy Thornton, who was making his first appearance in representing Carrillo.
The trial date had been set for Nov. 30, but Lagotta said there was good cause to delay since Thornton was just appointed to represent Carrillo.
“It’s a complicated case. There is extensive discovery,” said Lagotta as to why the trial was delayed.
Deputy District Attorney Ted Fiorito and Campbell’s attorney, David Nguyen, told Lagotta the trial would last four weeks.
Lagotta assigned the case to Judge Eugenia Eyherabide for a trial date set on May 24, 2023.
Both men were earlier ordered to stand trial following a preliminary hearing of murder and numerous counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
Fiorito said Silver was not a target of the shooting. There was some type of dispute at the party in which a number of uninvited guests showed up including Carrillo, who left.
Carrillo and Campbell were believed to be inside a light-colored sedan that drove into the alley and an occupant fired nine rounds into the crowd of people.
One person was shot in the jaw and another person was wounded in the arm. Another was shot in his upper body. Silver was mortally wounded.
Both Carrillo and Campbell have pleaded not guilty to all charges. They both remain in jail, with no bail set for Carrillo and $9 million bail set for Campbell.