By Bee Staff
Bee researcher Linda Beymer contributed to this report
The Christmas Day 1988 killer of a U.S. Marine on leave and a serial sex offender are among Sacramento area convicts who are scheduled for parole hearings next week.
Here are some of the Sacramento area inmates serving life sentences who are due hearings within the next week:
-April 15, Richard Andrew Garcia, 41, Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison.
Garcia and Robert Lawrence Vincent, then 24, received life sentences for the drive-by fatal shooting of a Marine in front of a Citrus Heights convenience story on Christmas Day 1988, The Bee reported.
Anthony Alvarado, a 23-year-old vacationing Marine, died of a single gunshot wound to the head in the parking lot of a Food and Liquor Mart on Auburn Boulevard.
The shooting followed by about five minutes an altercation between one of Alvarado's Marine friends and the occupants of Vincent's car.
The car left but returned a few minutes later with Vincent at the wheel and Garcia in the passenger seat armed with a rifle.
Garcia admitted firing the fatal round, but he insisted he had meant only to fire over the victim's head.
-April 15, Daniel Dell Calvin, 61, Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison.
A Sacramento Superior Court judge sentenced Calvin to life in prison on March 28, 1995 after Calvin pleaded guilty to one count of child molestation, court records show.
Details on the crime to which Calvin pleaded guilty were not available to The Bee.
The Bee's archives show Calvin was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 1983 for molesting two girls, ages 8 and 12.
He also was convicted of two Sacramento area rapes in 1970 and released from prison in 1977.
In 1969, Calvin was arrested for indecent exposure and annoying children. Court records available to The Bee don't go back that far.
-April 13, Darryl Wayne Schilling, 44, Pelican Bay State Prison.
Schilling received a life sentence in November 1993 for stabbing to death a Sacramento man to steal his antiques, The Bee reported.
A Sacramento County Superior Court jury, however, in a conflicting verdict, refused to return a finding that the murder was committed during the robbery. The so-called special circumstance would have meant an automatic life term without the possibility of parole.
Schilling told jurors the killing was done by his former roommates. The same two men, testifying as key prosecution witnesses, fingered Schilling as the killer.
The victim, Charles Baumia, 58, was stabbed and slashed 27 times in his Citrus Heights home on Oct. 17, 1990.
The prosecution argued Schilling stole antique clocks and pricey rugs from Baumia then cleansed the home of physical evidence.
-April 14, Timothy Demetrius Johnson, 41, Avenal State Prison.
A Sacramento Superior Court judge sentenced Johnson to life in prison for the March 5, 1991 attempted murder of his girlfriend, who was left to die in a roadside ditch, The Bee reported.
Reginald Antonio Chavis, then 19, was the triggerman and also received a life sentence.
The 21-year-old victim's right arm was later amputated as a result of the shotgun attack.
The victim testified that she was on her way to Stockton with Johnson, and his friend, Chavis, after a botched effort to cash stolen money orders.
She testified that when she asked about the origin of the money orders, the men thought she was a police informant and forced her to undress as they searched for a recording device. After shooting Haines, the men kicked her into the ditch along a rural road near Franklin Boulevard and the Sacramento-San Joaquin county line.
If you want to give your opinion of an inmate's suitability for parole, you may mail a letter to:
Martin Hoshino, executive director
Board of Parole Hearings
1515 K Street
Sacramento, CA 95811
For more information on the Board of Parole Hearings, go to:
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