{"id":483633,"date":"2026-10-03T06:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483633\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T06:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:38:24","slug":"sacramentos-k-street-mass-shooting-suspects-to-face-retrial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483633\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento&#8217;s K Street mass shooting suspects to face retrial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two men accused in the 2022 K Street shooting that killed six people and injured a dozen others will face a retrial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/sacramento-k-street-mass-shooting-mistrial\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">after their first trial ended in a mistrial<\/a>, prosecutors confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting, which happened in downtown Sacramento in April 2022, remains the deadliest mass shooting in the city&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>The case against surviving suspects Dandrae Martin and Mtula Payton will now return to court, forcing victims&#8217; families to revisit the events and evidence surrounding the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>During the first trial, prosecutors dropped first-degree murder charges after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict. The jury then deliberated on second-degree murder charges but still could not reach a verdict, resulting in a mistrial in July.<\/p>\n<p>Leia Schenk of EMPACT, who has worked with victims&#8217; families throughout the case, said the retrial is another painful chapter for people who have already spent years reliving the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Families are numb to the process,&#8221; Schenk said. She added, &#8220;Four years now. Going into five. This retrial will go into the fifth year of this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said repeatedly returning to court can make it difficult for families to begin healing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The saddest part about this is that the families can&#8217;t even begin to heal every time they walk into the courtroom and rip the Band-Aid off,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Schenk said some family members have been forced to watch videos and revisit evidence showing the deaths of their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seeing videos of their loved ones being murdered or dying, it&#8217;s heartbreaking,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think they should have to relive this. It&#8217;s just not fair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The defense is expected to ask for a change of venue at the next court hearing, scheduled for January.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet clear whether prosecutors will pursue the case differently in the retrial or what specific charges they will seek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two men accused in the 2022 K Street shooting that killed six people and injured a dozen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7677,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-483633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-mass-shooting","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483633","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=483633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}