Two young women were gunned down near downtown Napa in April 2024 after they allegedly brought a knife to a fight with another woman, and the legal proceedings against two suspects in the case were just paused.
We’re getting a small update in the April 2024 double homicide that left 19-year-old Aileen Villasenor of Rohnert Park and 17-year-old Sasha Mufich of Napa both dead. As we learned at the time of the killings, three people were arrested for the double murder: John Nicholson Jr., then 22; Jessica Whitten, then 19; and Judith Adolph, then 19. Whitten and Adolph are both from Santa Rosa, and Nicholson is from Vallejo.
On April 13, 2024, the four young women were heard arguing on the 400 block of Riverside Drive, in the Napa Abajo neighborhood, which is across the Napa River and a few blocks south of the Napa Valley Expo. Investigators say that Villasenor and Mufich had come to the area with the three others, and Adolph allegedly planned to fight one of them…