Bay. One man is dead after an overnight police shooting. The issue started late last night at a home on Mount Frazier drive. Officers recieved a call about a family disturbance. A father and son were arguing with each other. Police say when they got to the home. The 28yearold son came out of the garage and charged at one of the officers with kitchen knives in both hands. Thats when one of the officers fired his gun. Gerry Hernandez neighbor the guy got shot down the street. All i heard were three gunshots. When we came out they put the yellow cones on it. I think there were 8 to 10 cones down the street reporter did you know the man . Gerry Hernandez neighb orno grant the man was rushed to the hospital and into surgery where he later died. Police say the man has a history of drug use, Mental Illness and prior criminal threats. The officer involved in the shooting. Is a 15 year veteran and has been placed on paid administrative leave. The investigation is on going. vicki staying in the
Outcome, sierras mother says she is glad her fdaughters killer will never walk the streets again. It gives us peace as a family, knowing that this wont happen to another child and that you cant get away with Something Like this catherine in addition to murder and kidnapping the jury also found garciatorres guilty of attempted carjacking. Prosecutors say he targeted women at Safeway Stores around morgan hill in a series of failed abductions before he kidnapped sierra lamar. Vicki and grant . vicki todays verdict was five years in the making and the bay area has followed this case every step of the way. grant and kron fours rob fladboe has been there since the beginning. He joins us live now from san jose. And rob, you were in the court room this morning when the verdict was read. What was the reaction like . rob live people started lining up outside the courthouse hours before the verdict was to be handed down. Every seat was taken in department 40 and dozens more people were watching v
We are grateful to the jurors for coming up with the right decision. Antolin Garcia Torres sat expressionless as he was found guilty of kidnapping and murder with special circumstances. A verdict that could put him on death row. This is a longtime coming. Its bittersweet. We dont have sierra thats the bittersweet part. There were no witnesses to connect antolin Garcia Torres to sierra lamars disappearance from this morgan hill crossroads. No evidence that he knew her. No murder weapon, or evidence of what happened to her body. Defense attorneys claimed that she was a runaway and is still alive. Prosecutors pinned their hopes on forensic evidence from her phone and purse, found nearby. The purse had her clothes inside. And there, they found the defendents d n a. He was arrested two months after her disappearance. And detetctives discovered her d n a and a strand of her hair in his car. That was enough for the jury of of six women and six men. They delivered their verdict after deliberat
Torres waits for his punishment life in prison or the Death Penalty. Today a jury convicted garciatorres of kidnapping and murder in the 2012 disappearance of the 15year old moran hill cheerleader. pam the body of sierra lamar has never been found. But dna evidence linked Garcia Torres to the crime. Kron4s rob fladeboe was in the courtroom today. When the verdict was handed down. pam Steve Marlene lamar sierras mother nothing will take a way the pain we have been feeling every day and will feel for the rest of our lives but we have been praying for this type of ending,,for justice. Sierra lamars mother marlene is talking about the justice metedout moments earlier tuesday as a jury handed down a verdict that found antolin Garcia Torres guilty in the march 2012 kidnap and murder of her 15 yearold daughter. Steve lamar sierras father i couldnt look up, i just kept looking down and i just felt a flood of emotions. There were audible sighs of relief and gasps in the packed courtroom as the
Sierra lamar this is a longtime coming. Its bittersweet. We dont have sierra thats the bittersweet part. There were no witnesses to connect Antolin Garcia torres to sierra lamars disappearance from this morgan hill crossroads. No evidence that he knew her. No murder weapon, or evidence of what happened to her body. Defense attorneys claimed that she was a runaway and is still alive. Prosecutors pinned their hopes on forensic evidence from her phone and purse, found nearby. The purse had her clothes inside. And there, they found the defendents d n a. He was arrested two months after her disappearance. And detetctives discovered her d n a and a strand of her hair in his car. That was enough for the jury of of six women and six men. They delivered their verdict after deliberating for just two days. We now move immediately into the next phase, the penalty phase, where the jury will decide whether the defendent gets the Death Penalty or life without parole. That process begins next week. Wh