SAN DIEGO : Trial of 2 Begins in Roadway Killing
Trial began Monday for two men accused of murdering a mother last year in front of her family.
Brian Ray Fletcher, 23, and Terrance Kent Moord, 27, each face murder and attempted-robbery charges in the shooting death of 33-year-old Maria Guadalupe Estrada on June 20, 1991.
Estrada was shot once in the face after stopping on the Market Street on-ramp to southbound Interstate 15 because an apparently disabled cab was partly blocking the roadway.
When two men approached the car, supposedly to obtain jumper cables, the victim was shot in the face. Estrada’s mother, younger brother and three children were all in the car and witnessed the attack.
Fletcher faces two special circumstance allegations--murder during the course of a robbery and murder while lying in wait--which will bring a mandatory sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole if found true by the jury.
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