Sacramento police have arrested a second suspect related to Sunday’s mass shooting downtown, announcing early Tuesday that the brother of the man arrested Monday is now in custody for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun.
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Smiley Martin, 27, is the brother of Dandrae Martin, who was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail Monday on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, police said.
The mass shooting killed six and wounded 12, and police said Smiley Martin was one of the wounded who was found at the scene near 10th and K streets with “serious injuries” and taken to a hospital for treatment.
“Smiley Martin was quickly identified as a person of interest and has remained under the supervision of an officer at the hospital while his treatment continues,” police said in an announcement early Tuesday. “Based on information developed during this investigation, Smiley Martin was taken into custody by Sacramento Police Department detectives on April 5, 2022.
“Once Smiley Martin’s medical care has been completed and he is determined to be fit for incarceration, he will be booked at the Sacramento County Main Jail for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun.”
Online Sacramento Superior Court filings show criminal cases dating back years for individuals named Smiley Martin, but there appear to be different individuals with variations of that name and online records no longer provide personal identifying information online in Sacramento’s courts.
Smiley Martin posted a 15-minute Facebook Live video Saturday night, hours before the shooting, in which he appeared to be brandishing a semiautomatic handgun toward the camera at times. The authenticity of the video, which has since been removed, was confirmed by a law enforcement source.
Dandrae Martin also has a criminal background in Riverside County and the Phoenix area, records show.
He appeared in a cage in a jailhouse courtroom and spoke only once to confirm his name to Superior Court Commissioner Ken Brody.
“Yeah,” Martin said, when asked if that was his name.
The Public Defender’s Office declared an overload, and the case was assigned for now to lawyer Linda Parisi, who said there would be a decision later on which defense attorney would represent Martin and other defendants.
After court, Parisi described her client as “very somber, very somber.”
“You saw in court, this is very serious,” she said.
Dandrae Martin will appear in court again April 26.
Smiley Martin, 27, posted a 15-minute Facebook Live video hours before the shooting in which he appeared to be brandishing a semiautomatic handgun toward the camera at times. The authenticity of the video, which has since been removed, was confirmed by a law enforcement source.
Biden and Newsom blindly grabbed for partisan talking points hours after Sunday’s mass murder. We now know the gun was illegally possessed and the suspect was a felon released early over the district attorney’s vehement objections.
H/T Kevin Kiley
If someone drinks, drives and kills an innocent then of course the first Dem response will be too take licenses away from people who don’t drink-and-drive.
Newsom should be incarcerated with these guys.The suspect in the Sacramento shooting that killed six people was a product of Gavin Newsom’s early release program. Prosecutors argued that he was a career criminal that would continue victimizing the community. Newsom ignored pleas from the prosecutors! I am hoping against hope that this will be counted as a hate crime against people of color including white and brown.