A 70-year-old man has been charged with murder after a confrontation with landscapers in Southern California this week turned deadly, according to authorities and a property owner.
Michael Anthony Burke was being held without bail in San Diego County’s Vista Detention Facility on Friday in connection with the death of Martin Lucas Esteban, according to jail records and a criminal complaint.
Esteban, an immigrant from Guatemala, had been working at a property in Fallbrook, a community about 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles, before the shooting on Monday, according to Alan Hsu, the property’s owner.
The shooting occurred about 8 p.m. following an argument, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office said. One man was killed and a second was treated for a gunshot injury and has been released from the hospital, it said.
Burke has been charged with murder, attempted murder, and shooting into an inhabited vehicle, according to the criminal
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