Violence strikes again: California hotel shooting ends in murder

SAN DIEGO, CA – Authorities have identified a Los Angeles County resident who was killed in a shooting earlier this week at a Mission Valley hotel, which also left another man wounded.

Damian Martinez, 19, of El Monte, California, was found dead in a hallway of the Handlery Hotel in the 900 block of Hotel Circle North around 8:30 p.m. on Monday, according to the San Diego Police Department (SDPD).

A second victim, a 23-year-old man, was discovered outside the hotel’s lobby with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. His identity has not been released…

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