Alexander Martinez pleaded not guilty to murder charges for what prosecutors called an 'unprovoked' daylight killing in San Francisco.
of Alberto Vargas Quero near Mission and 20th earlier this month, after a judge denied his attorney’s attempt to release him from jail., was shot and killed on Friday, April 5. He was working his first day at a barbershop on Mission Street and was killed after a dispute between the men, both sides agreed today in court.
“The charge is serious, it’s as serious as it gets,” said Judge Teresa Caffese before she granted the district attorney’s motion to keep Martinez, 30, in jail. Caffese also mentioned Martinez’s domestic violence case from 2019 as a consideration. “He was in fear and he fired a warning shot,” Freeman told Mission Local after the hearing. Martinez then drove away, and was
In surveillance footage reviewed by Mission Local, three men are outside the barbershop as a gun is apparently fired from outside the frame. In the moment before that shot, one man is turning into the shop and another, further away, begins running toward the shop. It is unclear which is Vargas Quero. A third man, apparently a bystander, jumps back as glass shatters near him.
Martinez was born in San Francisco and grew up in Minnesota with his mother, according to Freeman’s motion to release him filed on Monday. At 16, Martinez moved back to San Francisco to live with his father and graduated high school here.
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