Maria de la Luz Martinez, 21, was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail at 1:17 a.m. Oct. 15, records show, and faces charges of being an accessory after the fact and of street terrorism, with two street terrorism enhancements. Bail was set for her at $300,000.
She was in court today with four other defendants for a hearing that was continued to 8:30 a.m. on Monday.
Michael Dwayne Mau, 24, of Tracy, faces 13 counts of homicide and street terrorism, and prosecutors say he is a gang member.
Mau, prosecutors allege, grabbed a gun at about 1 a.m. and started to randomly fire into the front door of Amore’s after he and two others were asked to leave the nightclub after a fight.
Naim Bey, 41, a married father of two from Tracy, was hit in the head with one of the bullets and died two days later. Six others were shot, and treated and released from local hospitals.
Elvis Mendoza, 28, and Johnny Joseph Martinez, both of Tracy, 25, were with Mau when the shots were fired, prosecutors allege, and face charges of street terrorism and being accessories after the fact. Prosecutors allege Mendoza and Martinez are gang members as well.
And Cecilia Naomi Colon, 21, also faces charges of street terrorism and being an accessory after the fact.
Colon’s attorney Kristine Eagle argued her client she be released on her own recognizance from the San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp.
Eagle said Colon is a long-time Tracy resident and a student at Heald College with a 2-year-old child and no criminal record. Eagle said prosecutors believe Colon sometime after the shooting gave Mau a ride to Manteca. He was arrested there leaving a motel.
Eagle also said police have yet to find the murder weapon.
But Judge K. Peter Saiers, sitting in for Judge George Abdallah, who was out of town, declined Eagle’s request.
Victoria Bossie, the attorney of Jonnhy Martinez, also appeared on behalf of Maria Martinez, but declined to say afterward if the two are related.
Jonathan Fattarsi of the San Joaquin County Public Defender’s Office was appointed to represent Mau in the case, and asked for the Monday continuance that other attorneys and Saiers agreed to.
Contact Tracy Press City Editor Eric Firpo at 830-4223 or efirpo@tracypress.com.
Again, choose your friends wisely people.
RN sounds like you guys were able to get out of the gang? I hope your not still affiliated. If you guys got out, what advice can you give those kids who grow up in that atmosphere or are drawn to it so they can avoid it or get out alltogether?
Why are you so defensive? Did your education teach you reading comprehension?
I'm not talking to you or about you R.N. You don't need to prove anything to me. Nobody does. But your cousin is in trouble. Are you helping her out? An RN, excellent, you're smart, your cousin, I hope she gets away from it. You sound like you have the means to show her a better life. Oh, You don't want her IN your house? That is giving to much of yourself and the husband wouldn't like it. So is it you're all talk and no action. Like I said I take care of a couple drug addiction babies that have come from gang affiliated mothers. It is so sad to see, to try to help them.
maybenotdumBcommenT wrote on Thursday, Oct 22 at 07:57 PM
"Maybe they aren't all drug addicted but I've seen the worst of it and it is sad these gang banger have no conscious." And I don't have to understand that after these mothers have a baby why they stay