SANTA CRUZ — After a week-long break, the preliminary listening to continued Monday for 2 codefendants within the 2009 deadly stabbing of a Santa Cruz teen.
The case entails homicide expenses towards Ivan Tapia Ramirez and Paolo Luna, each 35. Within the 14th day of hearings, two Santa Cruz cops testified to particulars they gleaned throughout Tyler Tenorio’s murder investigation, greater than a dozen years earlier.
Tenorio, a 16-year-old Santa Cruz Excessive Faculty pupil, was killed throughout a avenue battle close to Chestnut and Laurel streets. He and three buddies using round city collectively on the night time of Oct. 16, 2009, left a automobile and confronted two males standing on the road, in accordance with testimony. 5 males have been arrested within the case, with one defendant launched with out expenses and two, Ramirez and Luna, arrested in 2019 and 2020, after individually being extradited from Mexico.
Santa Cruz police Sgt. Mike Hedley’s testimony, which detailed his interviews with a number of key witnesses, dominated Monday’s afternoon session. Hedley stated one in every of Luna’s and Ramirez’s former codefendants, Pasqual Duran Reyes, had recognized each males as collaborating within the battle previous to Tenorio’s demise. In reality, Hedley testified that Reyes noticed Ramirez take out “what he described as a really giant knife and began stabbing” Tenorio.
“Reyes stated Ivan at all times carried knives,” Hedley testified.
Reyes and fellow former codefendants Walter Antonio Escalante every pleaded responsible to gang-related involuntary manslaughter in 2012. Escalante had tripped Tenorio earlier than Reyes and others began kicking and punching the fallen Tenorio, in accordance with testimony. Earlier than the battle was over, Tenorio was left bleeding on the road with 17 stab wounds to his physique, in accordance with testimony.
Tenorio, together with three buddies, had engaged Ramirez and Luna in a battle whereas they stood in a sidewalk on the nook of Laurel and Chestnut avenue, Hedley stated Reyes instructed him. Reyes, Escalante and two different buddies have been shut by and ran over after they heard shouting, in accordance with testimony. Tenorio’s buddies started working away from the battle quickly after, when buddy and automobile driver Angel Palacios known as out the warning “gun.”
Tenorio could haven't heard the warning, because of being onerous of listening to in a single ear, Santa Cruz police Sgt. Mark Eveleth testified that Palacios later instructed him.
In the course of the weeks of hearings, witnesses have differed on which get together verbally initiated the battle and what was yelled, when.
The preliminary listening to was set to renew Tuesday morning.