\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTestimony resumed Friday for the Sacramento K Street murder trial as the lead investigator in the city’s deadliest shooting continued to share his findings.Six people died, and 12 more were injured in the April 3, 2022, shooting along the nightlife corridor. The remaining defendants are Mtula Payton and Dandrae Martin, who face murder and weapons charges.At issue in this trial is whether the shooting stemmed from a gang-related standoff or if friends were simply hanging out until a conversation spiraled into gunfire.K Street trial updates todayFind live updates below as they occurUpdates from May 12 and afterwardFriday morning\u2019s proceedings were dominated by footage from the police body cam during an interview with a man whose initials are OW in his hospital bed.In the footage, OW seems to describe Smiley Martin and possibly his brother Dandrae as having been at the K street shooting. He describes what he thinks is Smiley Martin because he recognized him \u2013 in particular the sweater and bandana he had on \u2013 from a social media post he was sent.The Martin brothers and Payton were taken into custody, but Smiley Martin died in 2024 while in jail. Three other people who died were 29-year-old DeVazia Turner, 38-year-old Sergio Harris and 32-year-old Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi. They are not considered victims because of a California law that does not consider them one if they participate in a shooting that injures or kills someone.OW described in the interview how he was asked, \u201cWhat you lookin\u2019 at?\u201d followed by, \u201cWhere you from,\u201d to which he responded, \u201cFrom the north side.\u201d He said he took a couple steps and then the firing started. He saw Sergio Harris move toward the person in the sweater \u2013 he said he didn\u2019t know Sergio was there until then \u2013 and saw him and another woman go down, killed by gunfire. He said he didn\u2019t really know how badly he was hurt until he was on the gurney.While questioning during his testimony swirled around whether he knew the people and whether everything came from videos shown by police, the DA showed the entirety of the first OW interview during court.Updates from the beginning of the trialThe victims in the K Street shootingThe three victims are 21-year-old Johntaya “JoJo” Alexander, 57-year-old Melinda Davis, and 21-year-old Yamile Martinez-Andrade.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Testimony resumed Friday for the Sacramento K Street murder trial as the lead investigator in the city’s deadliest shooting continued to share his findings.<\/p>\n
Six people died, and 12 more were injured in the April 3, 2022, shooting along the nightlife corridor. The remaining defendants are Mtula Payton and Dandrae Martin, who face murder and weapons charges.<\/p>\n
At issue in this trial is whether the shooting stemmed from a gang-related standoff or if friends were simply hanging out until a conversation spiraled into gunfire.<\/p>\n
K Street trial updates today<\/p>\n
Find live updates below as they occur<\/p>\n
Updates from May 12 and afterward<\/p>\n
Friday morning\u2019s proceedings were dominated by footage from the police body cam during an interview with a man whose initials are OW in his hospital bed.<\/p>\n
In the footage, OW seems to describe Smiley Martin and possibly his brother Dandrae as having been at the K street shooting. He describes what he thinks is Smiley Martin because he recognized him \u2013 in particular the sweater and bandana he had on \u2013 from a social media post he was sent.<\/p>\n
The Martin brothers and Payton were taken into custody, but Smiley Martin died in 2024 while in jail. Three other people who died were 29-year-old DeVazia Turner, 38-year-old Sergio Harris and 32-year-old Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi. <\/p>\n
They are not considered victims because of a California law that does not consider them one if they participate in a shooting that injures or kills someone.<\/p>\n
OW described in the interview how he was asked, \u201cWhat you lookin\u2019 at?\u201d followed by, \u201cWhere you from,\u201d to which he responded, \u201cFrom the north side.\u201d <\/p>\n
He said he took a couple steps and then the firing started. <\/p>\n
He saw Sergio Harris move toward the person in the sweater \u2013 he said he didn\u2019t know Sergio was there until then \u2013 and saw him and another woman go down, killed by gunfire. He said he didn\u2019t really know how badly he was hurt until he was on the gurney.<\/p>\n
While questioning during his testimony swirled around whether he knew the people and whether everything came from videos shown by police, the DA showed the entirety of the first OW interview during court.<\/p>\n
Updates from the beginning of the trial<\/p>\n
The victims in the K Street shooting<\/p>\n
The three victims are 21-year-old Johntaya “JoJo” Alexander, 57-year-old Melinda Davis, and 21-year-old Yamile Martinez-Andrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Testimony resumed Friday for the Sacramento K Street murder trial as the lead investigator in the city’s deadliest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[20628,121,123,122,135,1428],"class_list":["post-338149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-k-street","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-shooting","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338149","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=338149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}