Mercury News: Murder verdict reached in double shooting at San Jose vista point
SAN JOSE — On a warm spring night in 2018, Emilio Salazar, Jennifer Josie Martinez and a friend got in a car and drove up Sierra Road to take in the breathtaking Silicon Valley view and throw themselves a little party.
They parked on the roadside, got some music playing, and consumed an alcoholic beverage or two while they danced on the hill. Salazar was really getting into it, waving his hands in the air to the music.
Fatefully, that caught the eye of a man driving up the hill, also with a car full of friends. One of those friends called out what he thought was Salazar making a hand gesture of a gun toward them.
The driver, Jose Luis Benitez Sanchez, pulled up to the dancing group with his window rolled down. Salazar, 21, and Martinez, 24, walked up, and said no more than a handful of words before Benitez Sanchez abruptly pulled out a handgun and fired repeatedly at the two, mortally wounding them.