2 weeks Ago By Robin Miller
A trial date has been scheduled in the death penalty case against a 34-year-old Sacramento man charged with the January 2021 killing of two women, one of them a minor, in Vacaville.Raymond Michael Weber will return to the courtroom of Superior Court Judge Jeffrey C. Kauffman at 9 a.
m. on June 24 for trial confirmation. The trial is now set for 10 a.
m. on Oct. 14, 2026.
The District Attorney’s Offices announced its intention to seek the death penalty case earlier this year. Chief Deputy Public Defender Tamani Taylor will represent Weber at trial but Weber has decided to represent himself, prompting Judge Kauffman to appoint Fairfield attorney Robert Boyle as a “standby counsel” during the penalty phase of the case. If needed, Boyle would act as an adviser available to step in and provide legal assistance, if needed, should Weber face a legal issue he cannot navigate on his own, without interfering with his right to self-representation.
Raymond Michael Weber, 33 (Solano County Sheriff’s Office)If the jury finds Weber guilty as charged, the trial will proceed to the penalty phase, during which jurors review aggravating and mitigating evidence. Afterward, jurors must then return a verdict of either death or life in prison without the possibility of parole.The Weber case is notable not only because it’s charged as a double homicide but also because, investigators reported, he livestreamed some of crimes and their aftermath in a Vacaville apartment.
A previously convicted felon, Weber is accused of shooting and killing Savannah Theberge, 27, who had ties to Utah and Georgia, and a 15-year-old girl from Elk Grove during the early hours of Jan. 30 in an apartment in the 500 block of Rocky Hill Road.As previously reported, during a July 2023 preliminary hearing, Vacaville police officers testified that Weber was a human trafficker who used romance to recruit a victim and keep them in line with violence, likening the relationship to “modern-day slavery.
”Investigators spoke with the mother of the slain teenager before she was killed, saying that she had earlier tried to stop the driver of a black sedan, whom she described as a “light-skinned African-American male with dreadlocks” of black and brown hair, from driving away with her daughter. Police say the girl’s cellphone was tracked to the Oxford Suites, a Rohnert Park hotel and a receipt from the hotel showed that Theberge had registered using her credit card. Additionally, investigators obtained hotel surveillance video footage, showing Weber and the girl.
Deputy District Attorney Eric Charm is leading the prosecution.Besides two counts of first-degree murder, with enhancements, Weber is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, human trafficking, and human trafficking depriving personal liberty, also felonies with enhancements..
