Trial setting rescheduled again for parolee charged with shooting into Fairfield home

Nakita L. Hubbard ordered to return Sept. 18 to Department 11 in the Justice Center in Fairfield

A 24-year-old parolee charged with shooting into an occupied Fairfield home may learn the date he will face a jury when he returns next week to a Solano County courtroom.

Nakita Lamont Hubbard was scheduled to appear Friday in Department 11 for a trial setting and a trial readiness conference, but court records show that Judge William J. Pendergast has reset the defendant’s next appearance for Sept. 18 for those same proceedings and also a pretrial services report and a motion to reduce bail. Hubbard is represented by an attorney from the Alternate Public

Defender.

Hubbard’s pending court date will come more than nine months after a preliminary hearing in the case.

Police records indicate Hubbard was arrested Oct. 16, 2018, and booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of several charges besides shooting into an inhabited dwelling. They include assault with a deadly weapon; being a felon in possession of a firearm; being in possession of a firearm after having been convicted of a violent offense; carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle; being a felon in possession of ammunition; committing a felony while out on bail; and violating the terms of his parole.

According to a police account, a dispatcher began to receive calls around 10:30 a.m. Oct. 15 about reports of gunshots heard in the area of Travis Boulevard and Union Avenue.

Around the same time, a resident in the 2000 block of Hampton Place also reported hearing gunshots — just before one of her front windows shattered.

Witnesses later told officers they believed someone in a red Dodge Charger with tinted windows was the culprit.

Investigators reviewed surveillance footage, and the next day an officer spotted what appeared to be the suspect’s vehicle drive by the residence. Recognizing the driver as Hubbard, the officer pulled him over and detained him and his two passengers.

After finding a loaded firearm during a search, and, upon learning that Hubbard was the shooter, the officer arrested him and booked him into Solano County Jail, where he is being held without bail.

During past proceedings, Hubbard has been represented by the Solano County Public Defender, the Alternate Public Defender, and, until recently, a private attorney, Stratton S. Barbee of Sacramento.

If convicted of all the charges at trial, Hubbard faces several years in state prison.