La Prell Briggs, a 49-year-old Vallejo resident, was fatally shot on March 18, 2022. Vallejo police responded to reports of a shooting around 7 p.m. in the 300 block of Pepper Drive and found Briggs with at least one gunshot wound. He was transported to a local hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival. This was Vallejo’s eighth homicide of 2022.

The Vallejo Police Department’s Detective Division took over the investigation. Motive and circumstances were initially unclear, and police asked anyone with information to come forward. A 19-year-old, named Damian Jones Jr., was later arrested during a traffic stop on a warrant and booked into the Solano County Jail on multiple felony counts, including murder and weapons violations; the investigation remained active as detectives worked to reconstruct the events.

Did anyone in the community witness the shooting or have information about activities around Pepper Drive that evening?