Ramona
Bail was set Friday at $500,000 for a 25-year-old man charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a sheriff’s deputy who was saved by a bullet-proof vest on New Year’s Eve.
Domingo Gutierrez Martinez of Ramona pleaded not guilty at his arraignment before San Diego Municipal Judge David Danielsen.
He is accused of trying to kill deputy Michael Vaszorich, 46, who responded on New Year’s Eve to reports of a man firing a gun in the air at a Ramona residence.
Vaszorich was shot in the chest. The bullet was deflected from the bullet-proof vest, he said, but the deputy may have suffered an internal injury. He was released from a hospital the next day.
The defendant also is charged with trying to murder Deputy Thomas Cleary, who wrestled with him over the gun, and with resisting arrest. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison.
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