Q: What happened to the suspects in the September or October 1993 shooting or stabbing death of by a man that was set up by the son of the victim's girlfriend? - Bob, Sacramento
A: On Sept. 25, 1993, Apolinar Martinez, 28, was stabbed eight or nine times and shot once in the head after assailants jumped him, gagged him and bound him with duct tape when he entered his Natomas apartment, The Bee reported.
Martinez's attackers included his girlfriend's son, who was angry because he believed Martinez had beaten her, police said.
However, the girlfriend had not filed police complaints against Martinez in the past, records showed.
The girlfriend's son, Marcos Gonzalez, then 21, was convicted of murder and given a 15-years-to-life sentence on Feb. 24, 1995, Sacramento Superior Court records show.
Jesus Orona, then 18, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison on June 12, 1997, court records show.
Francisco Orona, then 19, pleaded no contest to a murder charge and was sentenced to 15-years-to-life in prison on Sept. 6, 1996, court records show.
The Bee did not report the relationship, if any, between the Orona suspects.
A 21-year-old man and a 17-year-old youth boy also were arrested in the case. The Bee could not find any records indicating that those two were ever charged in the case.
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