Man Charged With Murder In Fatal Shooting Of Landscaper In California

A 70-year-old man has been charged pinch execution aft a confrontation pinch landscapers successful Southern California this week turned deadly, according to authorities and a spot owner.

Michael Anthony Burke was being held without bail successful San Diego County’s Vista Detention Facility connected Friday successful relationship pinch nan decease of Martin Lucas Esteban, according to jailhouse records and a criminal complaint.

Esteban, an migrant from Guatemala, had been moving astatine a spot successful Fallbrook, a organization astir 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles, earlier nan shooting connected Monday, according to Alan Hsu, nan property's owner.

The shooting occurred astir 8 p.m. pursuing an argument, nan San Diego County Sheriff's Office said. One man was killed and a 2nd was treated for a gunshot wounded and has been released from nan hospital, it said.

Burke has been charged pinch murder, attempted murder, and shooting into an inhabited vehicle, according to nan criminal complaint. Each allegation includes a recommended condemnation of 25 years to life, if convicted, nan filing states.

He pleaded not blameworthy to nan charges Thursday, according to plea documents obtained by NBC San Diego.

It’s not clear if Burke has retained a lawyer. The section nationalist defender’s agency did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Cellphone video of nan evident incident shows a man holding a shotgun and opinionated adjacent to a pickup.

The video, which was verified by NBC News, doesn’t make clear nan full discussion, and it does not show look to show what preceded nan statement betwixt nan man pinch nan shotgun and nan 2 wrong nan pickup.

In nan video, nan man pinch nan weapon is heard threatening nan men successful nan truck.

"I sewage mucho friends successful nan policia, road patrol. That's each right. You wanna dice today?" nan man says. Someone tin beryllium heard to inquire him what he said.

"You wanna dice today? I will termination you correct now. Don’t f--- pinch me. OK? You sabe? You sabe successful Español aliases successful Inglés?" nan man pinch nan weapon says, utilizing nan Spanish connection for "know."

Afterward nan man pinch nan shotgun points it wrong nan truck's compartment and nan rider grabs its barrel, nan video shows. A struggle ensues, nan weapon goes off, and nan man pinch nan limb yet says, "See, you f----d around," according to nan video.

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San Diego County Sheriff's Lt. Juan Marquez said investigators are alert of nan video and that prosecutors person reviewed it.

"The Sheriff’s Homicide Unit is conducting a thorough and broad investigation into this matter," he said by email.

Hsu, nan proprietor of nan spot being landscaped, a picnic rental, said Burke is simply a caretaker for an adjacent spot and lives connected nan parcel.

He described nan fishy arsenic having an “angry demeanor.”

“He wasn’t nan friendliest personification successful nan world,” Hsu said.

The victim's daughter, Martina Lucas, said her begetter was invited to nan location to thief a friend pinch landscaping, which Hsu confirmed. He said Martin Lucas had worked astatine nan spot before.

Martina Lucas said her dada was a bully father.

"That feline had nary bosom sidesplitting him," she said extracurricular a tribunal proceeding for nan fishy connected Thursday, according to NBC San Diego. "My begetter didn't merit to die."