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   From: uncivilized.black@jungle-animals   
      
   Fifty seconds to a minute. Nearly 115 bullets.   
      
   That’s how long it took, and what it took, to kill six people and injure   
   another 12 on April 3, 2022, during the worst mass shooting incident in   
   Sacramento’s history.   
      
   A woman shielded her sister, Johntaya Alexander, with her body amid gunfire   
   and watched a bloody Alexander inhale her last breath. A 12-year-old hot dog   
   seller stood feet away from men exchanging gunfire as screams rang out from   
   people running and    
   falling. A homeless woman, described as a sassy and kind spirit, died where   
   she often slept in between businesses on K Street.   
      
   These details emerged Wednesday during a preliminary hearing in Sacramento   
   Superior Court as attorneys wrapped up their questioning of Sacramento police   
   Detective Shaun McGovern, the lead investigator on the case.   
      
   Prosecutors also called upon a gang expert with the Sacramento Police   
   Department who testified that a single video uploaded on social media by a   
   suspect challenged an opposing gang and led to the bloody confrontation.   
      
   Brothers Dandrae Martin and Smiley Martin as well as Mtula Payton were charged   
   in the shooting that police said broke out when two rival gang members opened   
   fire at each other.   
      
   But Smiley Martin, 29, died in the downtown Sacramento County Main Jail in   
   early June from a methadone overdose. Prosecutors have formally dropped the   
   charges against him.   
      
   The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office charged Dandrae Martin and   
   Payton each with three counts of murder for the shooting deaths of innocent   
   bystanders Yamile Martinez, 21; Alexander, 21; and Melinda Davis, 57.   
      
   Prosecutors have not charged the defendants with the deaths of Joshua   
   Hoye-Lucchessi, 32; Sergio Harris, 38; and Devazia Tuner, 29, because they say   
   all three were involved in the gunfight.   
      
   Alexander’s sister said she saw Oshe White get into a confrontation with   
   five to six men. The body language between White and the group prompted her to   
   leave the area, McGovern testified.   
      
   The 12-year-old boy saw two groups of men cursing at each other on the corner   
   of 10th and K streets, where gunfire went on to erupt, McGovern testified.   
      
   The boy, who arrived with other hot dog sellers to the area, said they sold   
   their wares to patrons exiting clubs in hopes to buy video games, McGovern   
   testified. But soon the boy saw Mtula Payton lift his shirt to show the gun   
   concealed in his waistband    
   as the shooting began, McGovern said.   
      
   Defense attorney Reid Kingsbury, representing Payton, broke down the shooting   
   into seconds in an effort to show his client could not have fired the shot   
   that killed Martinez and Johntaya Alexander.   
      
   The shooting broke out at 2 a.m. and 37 seconds, McGovern testified. Martinez   
   collapsed one second after gunfire broke out, and Alexander fell about 2 a.m.   
   and 42 seconds, McGovern said.   
      
   Payton didn’t start shooting until 2 a.m. 47 seconds, McGovern testified,   
   which Kingsbury said proves Payton did not fire the kill shots for the victims.   
      
   And there was initially no animosity between Payton and the Martin brothers in   
   the surveillance footage that captured each movement of the night, McGovern   
   testified. Payton told investigators he had no animosity with Smiley Martin   
   and the two hugged when    
   meeting in downtown Sacramento, McGovern testified.   
      
   But McGovern also said he wasn’t aware of what Payton discussed when hugging   
   Smiley Martin, during a time when Dandrae Martin was also in the group.   
      
   ‘Basically a challenge’   
   Sacramento police Lt. Zach Eaton, a gang expert, broke down the rivalries   
   between different gangs in Sacramento.   
      
   Payton is a member of G-MOBB gang in a subset called Guttah. The Martin   
   brothers are members of the Garden Blocc Crips, a subset of the 29th Street   
   Crips.   
      
   The information relayed about the Martin brothers led their mother, present in   
   court, to say “What?” aloud and in disbelief. Judge Maryanne Gilliard   
   reprimanded her, and a deputy shushed her.   
      
      
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