The household of slain U.S. Marine Daniel Martinez battled bitter wind and their still-powerful feelings outdoors a Boston courthouse to announce that they are going to be submitting a wrongful dying go well with this week in opposition to Sons of Boston, the bar that employed Martinez’s alleged killer.
Alvaro Omar Larrama, a 39-year-old East Boston father of 4 who labored as a bouncer on the bar, is charged with stabbing Martinez, 23, to dying outdoors the bar the weekend after St. Patrick’s Day. Boston’s licensing board indefinitely suspended the bar’s licenses earlier this month.
“We have gotten some answers through the licensing board, but the family will not rest until all their questions are answered, and that’s why we’re filing the lawsuit,” stated household lawyer Thomas Flaws, of the agency Altman Nussbaum & Shunnarah.
The household had first introduced their intentions to file the civil go well with in opposition to the bar on the finish of final month. The bar was discovered to not have run a background verify on Larrama earlier than hiring him, a listening to final month discovered.
Flaws spoke with members of the Martinez household who had traveled from their dwelling south of Chicago to attend Thursday morning’s possible trigger listening to at Boston Municipal Court within the homicide case in opposition to Larrama.
While the defendant made an look — he wore an untucked white costume shirt and darkish slacks — the listening to was finally continued to June 15, in opposition to the objections of protection attorneys.
“It was a moment I’ve waited for for a long time,” Apolonia Martinez, Daniel’s mom, stated about attending the listening to, vowing to attend all future hearings. “I needed to see the person who took my son’s life; a 23-year-old Marine who had the whole world in front of him. His whole life ahead of him. I needed him to feel the sorrow and the heartbreak that I feel, that my family feels. I needed him to feel the weight of my tears I have cried. My heart is broken.”
Apolonia Martinez and different household — Daniel had 4 siblings, together with a youthful brother, a twin brother, an older brother and an older sister — and mates in attendance sported pins of Daniel’s face, in Marine uniform, over crimson ribbons on their lapels. Others wearing T-shirts along with his picture.
Daniel’s twin brother, Matthew, stated he was hanging out with cousins when he acquired the decision that his brother was lifeless, leaving him in “shock.” Matthew had dropped Daniel off on the airport for his brother to expertise St. Patrick’s Day in Boston, which means he was the final member of the family to see him alive.
“I feel if there’s one thing I’ve lost out of this other than my brother, is the shared experiences that I’ve had,” Matthew Martinez advised the Herald following the press convention. “You know, I have older brothers, we have our experiences, I have younger brothers, but there’s nothing like me and my twin because we experience things at the same exact time.”
Daniel and Matthew had been there for one another in methods others may not perceive in the event that they don’t have a twin.
“I think it’s one of those things where you always have a best friend. I remember when we went to a new school, sometimes people would say, ‘Oh, I don’t have any friends,’” he stated. “You never really have to worry about that when you have a twin, because he’s right here.”
But the loss has introduced the household a brand new readability, Matthew Martinez stated, permitting them to “see the bigger picture.”
“And for us,” he stated, “the bigger picture is helping other people and spreading awareness.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”