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Tuesday was the deadliest day of the pandemic in California thus far, with 295 COVID-19 deaths, or roughly 12 Californians dying ever hour. More than 21,000 Californians have now died from COVID-19 or related complications.
This morning, I’d like to spend a little time talking about one of those Californians, and the people he left behind.
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By day, Victor Martinez, 36, worked as an environmental supervisor at a state residential facility for developmentally disabled adults, overseeing custodial staff. But his true passion was music.
For more than a decade, he performed as a DJ in and around his hometown of Porterville under the name “DJ V-Funk.” Martinez knew instinctively how to read a crowd, and what to play to get them dancing, according to his wife Emelina Martinez.