A hitman for Mexican drug cartels admitted to killing more than 30 people around the United States, according to NBC Los Angeles. If Martinez, who is a U.S. citizen, is found guilty of the multiple homicides, he will be among the most lethal serial murderers in American history. “He basically told us, ‘I’m the guy that pays you a visit when you don’t pay the cartel,” a Lawrence County Sheriff’s Captain said according to NBC News. “He had a reputation in the drug world as the guy who would get the job done. If he was assigned to get money, he’d get money.” Martinez is now in custody at Alabama’s Lawrence County Jail.
A Miami community gathered at a vigil Thursday night to plead for information in a drive-by shooting over the weekend.
On Sunday at 12:30 a.m. officers found four people shot multiple times in the area of NW 5th Avenue and 54th Street.
Demetrios Owens, 29, Rudolph Sawyer, 23, died at the scene, and Jayaia Citts, 17, and another person were critically injured.
Earlier this week, family members of the shooting victims pleaded for the public to help find the killers.
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Authorities said they were searching for two to three people who were seen shooting at the victims in a dark vehicle, which fled.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Miami Police Department's Homicide Unit at (305) 603-6350 or Miami Dade Crime Stoppers at (305) 471-8477 (TIPS).
