People v. Tyree CA3
Opinion
Opinion
BACKGROUND
J.C. had known Tyree, who was 24 years old, for over 10 years. Although J.C. considered Tyree a friend, they had “sexual encounters here and there.” On July 15, 2021, J.C., Tyree, and another man named Mali stayed at a hotel in downtown Sacramento. While at the hotel with Tyree, J.C. received Instagram messages from Jackson, with whom she had also been intimate. In these messages, Jackson expressed dissatisfaction with his relationship with J.C. and ultimately told J.C. that she was “the type of . . . bitch that he will strip.”1 The next morning, J.C. went to the bank and withdrew about $2,000. Afterwards, she went back to the hotel and took a shower. When J.C. got out of the shower, Tyree and Mali had left the hotel room and J.C.’s money was missing from her wallet. Later that day, J.C. drove her car to her sister’s apartment. At some point in the evening, J.C. went outside to meet a boyfriend she had not seen in a while. Around midnight, after talking with her boyfriend in or near his car, J.C. walked to her car to retrieve a bottle of liquor. She saw a white Infinity pull up behind her boyfriend’s car and turn off its lights.