Trial date confirmed for Coachella shooting suspect
An April 7 trial date was confirmed today for a 23-year-old man accused with two others in a shooting at a Coachella Valley residence.
Caillou Marcus Renteria of Coachella is charged with attempted murder, shooting at an inhabited dwelling and a sentence-enhancing gun use allegation for the 2022 attack.
During a status hearing at the Larson Justice Center in Indio on Friday, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Dean Benjamini conferred with the prosecution and defense regarding scheduling, and both sides agreed to prepare for trial proceedings in early April, though the date may be moved.
Renteria is free on a $100,000 bond.
He was arrested in June 2022, along with 25-year-old Issac Marquez Vargas and a 16-year-old boy, whose identity was not disclosed. Both are from Coachella.
Vargas was charged separately with attempted murder and sentence-enhancing gun and great bodily injury allegations, as well as committing a felony while on bail.
According to sheriff's investigators, on the night of May 31, the defendants went to a home in the 52700 block of Genoa Street, near 52nd Avenue, in Coachella and opened fire, damaging several parked vehicles.
They got away undetected, investigators said. However, detectives ultimately compiled sufficient evidence to identify the threesome, culminating in the defendants' arrests two weeks later.
A possible motive for the shooting wasn't disclosed.
Vargas alone is accused of shooting a 25-year-old man multiple times in a Coachella parking lot around the same time. The victim, whose identity wasn't released, survived. What prompted the alleged attack was not revealed by sheriff's officials.
Vargas is being held without bail at the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning.
The teen's case was lodged in Riverside County Juvenile Dependency Court, and no information was available on its disposition.
Neither Renteria or Vargas has documented prior felony convictions in Riverside County. Information on the juvenile was unavailable.
