{"id":348636,"date":"2026-06-05T22:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348636\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T22:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:05:11","slug":"sacramento-k-street-shooting-trial-focuses-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348636\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento K Street shooting trial focuses on video"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Murder<\/p>\n

Murder suspect Dandrae Martin listens to opening statements during the K Street mass shooting trial at the Tani Cantil-Sakauye Sacramento Courthouse on Tuesday, April 21, 2026.<\/p>\n

HECTOR AMEZCUA<\/p>\n

hamezcua@sacbee.com<\/p>\n

The shooting lasted just seconds, leaving the dead and wounded in its wake.<\/p>\n

Joshua Hoye-Lucchessi, 32, was one of the first to fall, slumping against a jewelry store\u2019s plate-glass window on 10th Street. Hoye allegedly fired the shots believed to have triggered the massacre on April 3, 2022, after pointing his weapon down 10th Street before gunfire rang out.<\/p>\n

Sergio Harris, 38, and Davazia Turner, 29, also were struck down in the hail of bullets. Three others \u2014 Yamile Martinez, 21; Johntaya Alexander, 21; and Melinda Davis, 57 \u2014 were caught in the crossfire and died in the barrage.<\/p>\n

Sacramento Superior Court jurors Friday at the murder trial of Dandrae Martin and Mtula Payton<\/a> watched surveillance and police videos capturing the final moments before and after the April 2022 shootings that left six dead and 13 wounded<\/a>. Sacramento County prosecutors argue the massacre was a gun battle between gang rivals.<\/p>\n

Attorneys for Martin and Payton said their clients fired in self-defense<\/a>, responding to a spontaneous burst of gunfire.<\/p>\n

Multiple videos from different perspectives tracked brothers Smiley and Dandrae Martin, Harris, Turner and Hoye before the shootings turned a crowded stretch of downtown K Street into chaos.<\/p>\n

\"Murder Murder suspect Mtula Payton listens to opening statement during the K Street mass shooting trial at the Tani Cantil-Sakauye Sacramento Courthouse on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. HECTOR AMEZCUA hamezcua@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

Sacramento Police Detective Shaun McGovern again returned to the witness stand before Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman, guiding jurors through videos showing how the men moved through nightclubs and along K Street before the gunfire erupted just after closing time.<\/p>\n

In video of a 2022 Sacramento police interview played Thursday for jurors, Sergio Harris\u2019 cousin, Ike Harris, described his cousin\u2019s longstanding feud with some of those involved in the deadly shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese were two groups of people who didn\u2019t get along at all,\u201d Ike Harries said in the interview.<\/p>\n

That animosity came to a violent head around 2 a.m. on a crowded corner at 10th and K streets. Hoye, the Martin brothers, Mtula Payton and Turner were among those on the corner.<\/p>\n

\"In In an image captured from surveillance video and labeled by Sacramento police, gang members are identified moments before a shooting April 3, 2022, in downtown Sacramento. Six people were killed and 12 others were wounded in the shootout. Sacramento Police Department <\/p>\n

So was a 12-year-old street vendor working at his pushcart who was later interviewed by McGovern. He fled for cover as the gunfire started. Jurors on Friday watched video of the interview recorded at the boy\u2019s home.<\/p>\n

\u201cA guy came out raging mad, then everybody started running,\u201d the boy told McGovern on the video. \u201cI started running when he lifted up his shirt,\u201d he continued, describing one of the shooters. \u201cHe was right in front of the cart when it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoye was seen on surveillance video at 10th and K streets firing a weapon. Dandrae and Smiley Martin also opened fire before video footage showed the two, one after the other, running east on K Street. McGovern testified that Sacramento police later recovered a Glock 19 handgun, which prosecutors allege was tossed by Smiley Martin, from the scene.<\/p>\n

Hoye also tried to run but managed only a couple of steps before he was fatally shot.<\/p>\n

Testimony continued Friday afternoon as prosecutors moved closer to wrapping up their case. Jurors are expected to hear closing arguments and begin deliberations as early as Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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\n \"Profile
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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":"Murder suspect Dandrae Martin listens to opening statements during the K Street mass shooting trial at the Tani…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-348636","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\/348636","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=348636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}