{"id":201047,"date":"2026-03-02T20:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201047\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T20:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:40:06","slug":"long-trial-delay-set-in-fatal-march-2025-hotel-circle-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201047\/","title":{"rendered":"Long trial delay set in fatal March 2025 Hotel Circle shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\tOverview: Hotel Circle shooting<\/p>\n

The victim’s family and the prosecutor did not object to the long delay, which was requested by Larin’s attorney in San Diego Superior Court.<\/p>\n

A man suspected of killing his coworker<\/a> and wounding another just outside a hotel in the Hotel Circle area got a long trial delay on Feb. 24. <\/p>\n

Kevin Casey Larin, 30, waived his right to have a speedy trial in the March 2025 fatal shooting<\/a> of Damian Martinez, 19, who was killed as he sat inside a vehicle. It is now now scheduled to begin until Oct. 13.<\/p>\n

The other coworker, Bailey Lorenzano, 24, got out of the truck and ran into the Handlery Hotel<\/a> at 950 Hotel Circle N., where he was also shot. Lorenzano survived his injuries.<\/p>\n

The victim\u2019s family and the prosecutor did not object to the long delay, which was requested by Larin\u2019s attorney in San Diego Superior Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Larin has pleaded not guilty and remains in jail without bail.<\/p>\n

The trio had been traveling together for hours before the shooting. They then checked into a hotel, and the shooting followed purchases of alcohol in Mission Valley. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overview: Hotel Circle shooting The victim’s family and the prosecutor did not object to the long delay, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[33969,93363,1331,74,76,75,135],"class_list":["post-201047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-handlery-hotel","tag-hotel-circle","tag-murder","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}