Transient Found Guilty of Prostitute’s Murder
A San Fernando Superior Court jury has found a 35-year-old transient guilty in the shooting death of a prostitute.
Daniel Leon Martinez was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder in the Dec. 2 killing of 22-year-old Camela Dawn Szafrancski, Deputy Dist. Atty. Sue G. Lasicka said. Szafrancski, identified by authorities as a prostitute, was shot once in the head with a small-caliber gun, Lasicka said.
The victim’s body was found in a Granada Hills office building where she worked, police said. Martinez was arrested four days later when police officers pulled him over for a traffic violation in the same area and discovered that he was driving the victim’s car.
Martinez, who could be sentenced to a maximum of life in prison, is scheduled to return to court June 2 for the penalty phase of the trial.
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