Testimony begins in 2009 fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Santa Cruz boy

SANTA CRUZ — The preliminary courtroom listening to for 2 remaining defendants in a greater than 12-year-old deadly Santa Cruz stabbing case started Wednesday with testimony from a first-hand witness.

Tyler Tenorio, 16-year-old Santa Cruz Excessive scholar, was stabbed to demise on Laurel Road on Oct. 16, 2009. (Household photograph) 

Santa Cruz Excessive College scholar Tyler Tenorio, 16, was reportedly ingesting and driving round city with associates on the evening of Oct. 16, 2009 when the group’s driver pulled his automotive over at Laurel and Myrtle streets to confront a gaggle of males on the road, in line with testimony and police studies on the time. The encounter would later result in Tenorio’s demise, in line with police studies.

Codefendants Ivan Tapia Ramirez and Paulo Luna, each 35, are going through homicide fees within the case. The 2 had been arrested after being extradited from Mexico in 2019 and 2020, respectively.

Testimony within the listening to is projected to stretch a number of weeks, attorneys stated. The Santa Cruz County District Legal professional’s Workplace case comes years after Walter Antonio Escalante of Watsonville and Pasqual Duran Reyes, of Stay Oak, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter fees within the case and Daniel Onesto, of Santa Cruz, was launched with out fees.

In response to Wilson, the 4 associates had entered bodily fight with the group on the road earlier than their driver yelled for them to “run” and headed again towards his ready automotive, witness and participant Seamus Wilson testified. Tenorio, nonetheless, was tripped from behind by a member of the opposing group, Wilson testified. Members of the group then started punching and kicking Tenorio, who was curled right into a fetal place on the road, he stated. Wilson testified that he noticed what seemed to be one thing shiny and chrome within the hand of one of many opposing group.

Throughout a 2020 press convention, Santa Cruz County District Legal professional Jeff Rosell proclaims the extradition and arrest of Paulo Ramirez Luna, certainly one of 5 males suspected of involvement within the 2009 deadly stabbing of 16-year-old Tyler Tenorio of Santa Cruz. (Jessica A. York — Santa Cruz Sentinel file) 

Realizing his good friend was in hassle, Wilson made his manner again to Tenorio and pulled him by his foot out from the middle of the group, he stated. It was not till Wilson didn't hoist Tenorio onto his shoulder and pulled his good friend onto his lap that he realized the teenager was bleeding from his abdomen, later decided by police to be the world of quite a few knife wounds.

Testimony is scheduled to renew Thursday morning at Santa Cruz County Superior Courtroom.