{"id":277142,"date":"2026-04-20T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277142\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:05:08","slug":"trial-to-begin-for-2022-sacramento-k-street-shooting-rampage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277142\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial to begin for 2022 Sacramento K Street shooting rampage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years after the deadliest mass shooting in Sacramento history<\/a>, trial will begin Tuesday in the K Street shootings that killed six people and wounded 12 in downtown Sacramento in April 2022.<\/p>\n

Jurors were selected Wednesday for the estimated 10-week trial at Tani Cantil-Sakauye Sacramento Courthouse<\/a>, slated to begin weeks after the anniversary of the shootings.<\/p>\n

Dandrae Martin and Mtula Payton each face three counts of murder in the shootout at K and 10th streets that left bystanders dead: Yamile Martinez, 21; Johntaya Alexander, 21; and Melinda Davis, 57.<\/p>\n

The three others slain in the gunfire early April 3, 2022, \u2014 Joshua Hoye-Lucchessi, 32; Sergio Harris, 38; and Devazia Turner, 29 \u2014 were involved in the shootout, according to Sacramento County prosecutors.<\/p>\n

\"Murder Murder suspect Mtula Payton, center, listens to prosecutor Brad Ng, left, question a cousin of victim Sergio Harris during a preliminary hearing in Sacramento Superior Court on Tuesday, April 4, 2024, in the case of the April 2022 mass shooting in downtown Sacramento. Nathaniel Levine nlevine@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

Martin\u2019s brother, Smiley Martin, 29, died in Sacramento County Main Jail<\/a> in June 2024 while awaiting trial in the case. His charges were later dropped.<\/p>\n

Defense attorneys have argued that Martin and Payton acted in self-defense<\/a> during the downtown shootout with alleged gang rivals, calling the deadly exchange a \u201cspontaneous event,\u201d and saying Martin and Payton fired back to defend themselves.<\/p>\n

Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman in February denied Martin and Payton\u2019s motions to reduce their charges to manslaughter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Defense Defense attorney Linda Parisi questions a witness on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, as murder suspect Dandrae Martin listens in Sacramento Superior Court during a preliminary hearing in the case of the April 2022 downtown Sacramento mass shooting. Hector Amezcua hamezcua@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

Defense attorneys unsuccessfully attempted to have the trial moved out of Sacramento, saying years of news coverage following the shooting had irreparably tainted prospective jurors.<\/p>\n

Bowman, who will hear opening statements Tuesday, rejected the argument, keeping the trial in Sacramento and setting it for April.<\/p>\n

Coverage of downtown shooting<\/p>\n

Six people were killed and 12 others were wounded in a mass shooting in downtown Sacramento on April 3, 2022, near 10th and K streets. Investigators and prosecutors said the gunfire broke out during a confrontation between rival gang members, setting off a sweeping criminal case that has stretched through arrests, charges and courtroom testimony, as covered by The Sacramento Bee coverage over the past four years.<\/p>\n

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Darrell Smith<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Darrell Smith is a local reporter for The Sacramento Bee. He joined The Bee in 2006 and previously worked at newspapers in Palm Springs, Colorado Springs and Marysville. Smith was born and raised at Beale Air Force Base and lives in Elk Grove.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four years after the deadliest mass shooting in Sacramento history, trial will begin Tuesday in the K Street…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-277142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277142","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=277142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}