A man who allegedly gunned down two men in Barrio Logan last year, then fled the scene in the car of one of the victims, was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on murder charges.
Guillermo David Gonzalez, 24, of National City, is charged in the Sept. 14 slayings of Junior Alastre, 23, and Osnaider Silveira, 28. Both men had recently immigrated to the United States from Venezuela, according to police.
The victims were shot multiple times that night while sitting inside two adjacent parked cars on Newton Avenue.
Prosecutors say Gonzalez first opened fire on Alastre, then shot Silveira. Silveira’s wife was in the backseat of Silveira’s vehicle at the time, but Gonzalez allegedly let her flee, then took Silveira’s car. He was arrested the following day after allegedly driving Silveira’s vehicle to the city of Rosemead in Los Angeles County.
The shooting was captured on streetlight surveillance footage, which was played in San Diego Superior Court during a preliminary hearing to determine if Gonzalez could head to trial on the murder counts.
The footage showed a man, who prosecutors allege is Gonzalez, first open fire on a parked Mitsubishi, allegedly occupied by Alastre. The shooter then moves to the second car, a Kia parked alongside the Mitsubishi.
The shooter opens fire multiple times from the driver’s side of the Kia. He then walks to the enger side, fires several more times, then pulls a man’s body from the car and fires twice more on the prone victim.
Silveira died at the scene, San Diego police Lt. Lou Maggi said. Paramedics took Alastre to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Prosecutors allege Alastre was shot five times, while Silveira was shot more than a dozen times.
Preliminary hearing testimony indicated that after Gonzalez’s arrest, police found what appeared to be blood spatter on his shoes. He was also wearing clothing similar to the clothes worn by the shooter, as seen in the surveillance footage.
Investigators conducted a search of another vehicle Gonzalez was known to drive and found a case for a handgun, plus boxes for ammunition matching casings recovered from the shooting scene, San Diego police Sgt. Kevin Stein testified. The ammo boxes were missing numerous rounds, the number of which was consistent with the number of rounds expended at the scene of the killings, he testified.
If convicted of the murder counts, plus special circumstance allegations of committing multiple murders, Gonzalez could face either life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty if prosecutors pursue it.
Gonzalez remains in custody without bail.
