A Solano County Superior Court judge set a February trial date for a 23-year-old Vallejo rapper accused of fatally shooting a 26-year-old Vallejo man more than three years ago in a Fairfield home.

George Harris — aka Lul G — who, on Monday, appeared in Department 9 for a previously scheduled trial setting, heard Judge Carlos R. Gutierrez order him to return at 10 a.m. Feb. 23 to face a panel of jurors in the Justice Center in Fairfield.

The judge also set another trial readiness conference at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and another at 8:30 a.m. Jan. 6, plus a trial management conference at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 15.

The trial, including jury selection, is expected to last four weeks, according to court documents. Harris is represented by Vacaville criminal defense attorney Gregory S. Clark.

Solano County Sheriff’s Department records indicate Harris, a rising star in the Bay Area and national rap scene when accused of fatally shooting Rashied Flowers on July 24, 2019, was arrested on Sept. 21 in Clark County, Nevada.

Harris, who pleaded not guilty at his jail arraignment on Sept. 23, is being held without bail at the Stanton Correctional Facility in Fairfield.

Rolling Stone magazine and Pitchfork and XXL, among other websites, first reported the arrest.

Court records show that the Solano County District Attorney’s Office filed its complaint against Harris, who has a prior felony conviction, on Aug. 29.

Videos screened during the second day of a June 2021 preliminary hearing for Harris showed the victim, wounded and hunched over in pain, entering the kitchen of a Fairfield home, and the alleged shooter briefly entering the kitchen, screaming while looking at him.

Questioned on the witness stand by Deputy District Attorney Bill Ainsworth, who leads the prosecution, Fairfield Police Sgt. Robert Piro described what was happening in several clips retrieved from cameras in or near the Venetian Drive residence.

In the first, as Piro narrated, a Ring.com camera on the five-bedroom home’s front porch captured Harris, dressed in all white, walking toward the front door, the handle of a semi-automatic handgun visible as he walked into the home after two other men in the early evening hours of July 24.

In the second clip, Flowers can be seen entering the kitchen, wounded, then walking to a chair and sitting down just before the defendant enters the kitchen from the garage, where the shooting reportedly occurred.

And the third video, captured from a camera at a nearby residence, showed people loading Flowers into a white Range Rover parked on the street in front of the home.

Piro, a member of the department’s investigations unit at the time of the shooting, testified that Harris and others had gathered at the home to possibly record a rap video.

But Flowers wanted to play an unspecified “dice game” and the others, including Harris, joined in the gambling, which occurred in the garage.

As Harris lost money to Flowers, then allegedly snorted cocaine “off his hand,” said Piro. Then an altercation between the two ensued with Harris, added Piro, calling Flowers “a bitch.”

As passions rose, people in the garage believed Harris and Flowers were going to start a fight, he said. At some point, Harris is believed to have fired a single shot, striking Flowers in the abdomen.

Piro testified that Harris, who reportedly had been drinking alcohol on the day of the shooting, was “screaming and crying” after the shooting and said that he was sorry.

Some weeks passed before Piro heard that Harris had been arrested in Las Vegas on Sept. 10, and was in the Clark County Detention Facility. He flew there the same day and Harris was later extradited to Solano County.

Ainsworth called Dr. Arnold Josselson, the longtime Fairfield pathologist who performs autopsies, to the witness stand.

Upon examining the body two days after the shooting, Josselson said a “single gunshot wound” to Flowers’ body was fatal, with the “medium-caliber” bullet passing through parts of the small intestine and ending up in his right hip area. The bullet also pierced one of Flowers’ two iliac arteries, the arteries that split off from the aorta, the human body’s main artery. Flowers died from loss of blood, said Josselson.

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Harris gained fame as a member of Vallejo rap group SOB x RBE and was part of the group when it had a breakout spot with “Paramedic!” on the “Black Panther” film soundtrack in 2018, curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar.

Harris left SOB x RBE in 2018, later signing a deal with Def Jam records.

Rolling Stone reported that Harris allegedly had been on probation since age 17 for armed robbery and gun charges, but the DA’s complaint only referred to a prior unspecified conviction.

If found guilty at trial of first-degree murder, Harris could receive a prison term of 25 years to life, and likely more time for using a firearm and the prior felony conviction.