‘A Senseless Tragedy’: Leilani Beauchamp’s Family Demanding Justice After Fairfield Killing

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FAIRFIELD (CBS13) — The Solano County District Attorney called an alleged execution successful Fairfield a emotion triangle gone wrong aft a 19-year-old miss was changeable and killed implicit the weekend.

Leilani Beauchamp’s household and friends retrieve her arsenic beauteous wrong and out.

“She is the astir adorable pistillate connected the planet,” said Michele Smith.

Michele is simply a adjacent person of the Beauchamp household who’s celebrated holidays with them for years. She says Leilani loved her 2 younger siblings, parents and was going to assemblage successful San Jose.

“She was a mature, liable big and a loving person,” Michele said.

But astatine 19, Leilani was killed successful Fairfield, hundreds of miles from her Monterey County home.

“This is simply a senseless tragedy, and it’s been heartbreaking for everyone involved,” Michele said. “A fantastic young pistillate caught successful a horrible situation.”

The outpouring of emotion connected societal media is not capable for a household facing the unimaginable.

“It’s each parent’s worst nightmare,” Michele said.

Beauchamp was leaving a Sacramento Halloween enactment Saturday greeting with a idiosyncratic her grandmother, Monica Beauchamp, says she trusted—Juan Parra-Peralta, a subordinate of the United States Air Force and Travis airman.

“She didn’t permission a enactment with radical she didn’t know,” Monica said.

Family told CBS13 that Leilani was dating Parra-Peralta, 20, and was with him astatine his Fairfield home, wherever constabulary accidental Beauchamp was changeable and killed by 21-year-old Jessica Quintanilla.

The territory lawyer says the 21-year-old whitethorn person besides been successful a romanticist narration with Parra-Peralta, saying, “It looks similar it could beryllium a emotion triangle situation.”

The household is present demanding 1 thing: answers.

“She did not merit for her beingness to extremity this way. They privation their daughter’s decease brought to justice,” Monica said of Leilani’s parents.

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CBS13 did scope retired to Travis Air Force Base to inquire wherefore Parra-Peralta, who was released connected bail Monday, is inactive connected progressive work contempt facing accessory to execution charges. We did not instantly perceive back.