A man who allegedly gunned down two men in Barrio Logan last year, then fled the scene in a victim’s car, 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 recently had moved to the United States from Venezuela, according to police.
The victims were shot multiple times while sitting inside adjacent parked cars in the 1700 block of Newton Avenue.
Prosecutors say Gonzalez first opened fire on Alastre, then shot Silveira. Silveira’s wife was in the backseat at the time, but Gonzalez allegedly let her flee, then took Silveira’s car. Authorities arrested him the following day after allegedly driving Silveira’s vehicle to Rosemead.
Streetlight surveillance video captured the shooting. Prosecutors played the footage in court during a preliminary hearing to determine if Gonzalez will head to trial on the murder counts.
The footage showed a man, who prosecutors allege is Gonzalez, first open fire on a parked Mitsubishi, occupied by Alastre. The shooter then moves to the second car, a Kia parked alongside the Mitsubishi.
The shooter opens fire multiple times on the driver’s side of the Kia. He then walks to the passenger side, fires several more times and pulls a man’s body from the car. He 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 doctors pronounced him dead. The gunman shot Alastre five times, and Silveira more than a dozen times.
According to testimony at the preliminary hearing, after Gonzalez’s arrest, police found what appeared to be blood spatter on his shoes. He was also wearing clothing similar to those worn by the shooter, as seen in the 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, Sgt. Kevin Stein testified.
The ammo boxes were missing numerous rounds’ the total was consistent with the number of rounds expended at the scene of the killings, he said.
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.
Gonzalez remains in custody without bail.
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