Oxnard Man Sentenced For His Role In The Shooting Death Of A Camarillo Woman

Saturday October 07, 2023

(Courtroom photo courtesy VCDA)

     Six years after it happened, an Oxnard man has been sentenced for his role in the fatal shooting of a Camarillo woman and the wounding of her passenger in what turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.

     On the night of October 8, 2017, 26-year-old Alexis Lopez was stopped at a red light at Ventura Boulevard and Santa Clara Avenue in the unincorporated area of Nyeland Acres near Oxnard when shots rang out.

     Lopez was fatally shot and died at the scene.

     Her male passenger was seriously wounded but survived.

     While the killer has yet to be brought to justice in this case, his accomplice, the man who supplied the gun that was used, pleaded guilty to Voluntary Manslaughter and Attempted Murder earlier this year.

     And Friday, 26-year-old Jacob Jamal Steir, was sentenced to 27 years in prison.

     He and his gun were linked to the crime a month after it happened when he was arrested with the gun in Port Hueneme for being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm because of his criminal past.

     The ballistics matched the Nyeland Acres shooting.

     The authorities say that Steir and the shooter were in Nyeland Acres the night of the shooting when the killer saw the passenger in Lopez's vehicle and mistakenly believed it was the person he'd been looking for to seek revenge for an unrelated shooting earlier that day.

     The killer asked Steir for Steir's gun and Steir complied.

     That's when the killer opened fire on Lopez's vehicle, killing her and severely wounding her passenger.