A Sacramento County judge ordered her into a UC Davis program for formerly incarcerated students. She was arrested seven months later, accused of dealing drugs from her dorm, where officers found ammunition.
August 20, 2026 / 9:26 PM EDT / CBS News California
She was 15 when she was placed on juvenile probation for killing 15-year-old Omari Lowery in Sacramento County. Nearly five years later, she was arrested again — accused of dealing drugs from the UC Davis dorm room where she was serving out the remainder of her sentence, arrest records show.
Officers reported allegedly finding live ammunition hidden in a sock in her dresser, a digital scale, more than 100 plastic baggies, text messages appearing to show drug sales, and $4,121 in cash.
CBS California is not including her name in this article because she was a minor at the time of the original offense. She has not finished her sentence and was still under juvenile commitment when she was arrested as an adult in her UC Davis dorm room.
Records reviewed by CBS California Investigates show she had served roughly three years in secure juvenile custody when a Sacramento County judge found she'd made enough progress to step her down into California's Less Restrictive Programming , or LRP.
The state program lets courts move young offenders out of secure facilities into community-based settings, from halfway houses to, in this case, a university dorm, before their sentence is complete.