The men, police say, shot 5
people in the gas lamp quarter,
killing one of them, was sentenced
in court today. We'll have details,
plus we're back in court for day six
of the Larry Millette preliminary
hearing to determine if he will
stand trial for his wife's murder.
A single engine plane made an emergency
landing on the ocean in Carlsbad.
All three passengers got out safely.
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The gunman in a shooting spree in
the Gaslamp Quarter that killed
one and left four others hurt has
been sentenced to multiple life
terms in prison. Good evening.
Thanks for joining us. I'm Marcella Lee.
I'm Carlo chiquito.
34 year old Travis Sureste
was convicted of first degree
murder for the 2021 shooting.
Death of 28 year old Justice Bolden.
Justice was a parking valet
who was shot and killed in
front of the Pendry Hotel.
CBS 8 Kirsten Holmes is
following the story for us.
She joins us live now.
Kirsten, today's sentencing
included pretty emotional
victim impact. Treatments.
Yeah, it was pretty emotional
inside that courtroom.
What's for what's being
called the gas lamp shooter?
Now, Sharissa was also convicted of
attempted murder for four other men.
Today he received four life
terms in prison plus 175 years.
Now, I want to share with you some
of those victim impact statements,
but I gotta warn you,
what you're about to hear maybe
pretty difficult to listen to.
I remember all of it. I remember looking
up at the sky and slowly fading in
and out of consciousness, mouthing
the words I I
can't breathe, help me. And looking down at
your chest to see
the blood rushing out and not
knowing what just happened.
Vincent Gazani was vacationing
in San Diego when he was
shot in the Gaslamp Quarter.
Then your mind quickly rushes
to the worst. Knowing that you're
probably going to die and cannot
breathe thing it's only a matter of time.
Prosecutors say 34 year old Travis
Charista wandered downtown on April 22nd,
2021 and started shooting
random victims with a ghost gun.
28 year old Justice Bolden
was the first person shot.
It's been such a loss to no longer have him.
Justice Bolden's mom,
Denise shared with the courtroom and
charista how hard it is to lose her son.
You took away one of the
true loves of my life.
For no good reason.
You hurt me.
You hurt everybody that's sitting here.
And you've ruined your own life.
I hope you're happy.
Several members of Bolden's
family addressed the court,
asking for the maximum sentence.
Bolden sisters describe
how close they were.
Justin was my best friend.
He really was the best brother.
I can't imagine living the
rest of my life without him.
I so wish right now that he
was here to comfort me now.
It was. He was my confidant.
I I felt like I could tell him anything.
The man who decided that
his life wasn't worth it.
We'll never understand what it's like
to love the way that we love justice.
If you did, you wouldn't do this.
Court documents say Charlesto walked
past a group of tourists during the
shooting and told them to salute him.
Prosecutors say once they complied,
he, quote, let them live.
Two women testified that when he
walked past them the night of
the shooting that he's told them,
don't worry, I won't shoot a girl again.
He has been sentenced to four life
terms plus 175 years in a state
prison reporting live for CBS8.
I'm Kirsten Holmes.
Back to you.
The judge in Larry Millette's
preliminary hearing repeatedly
objected to defense questioning.
Today, Millette is charged with
murdering his wife, Maya, who has
not been seen in more than two years,
CBS 8 David Gottfredson reports.
Maya's brother, as well as a coworker
and friend of Maya, endured hours
of questioning on the witness stand.
And you would ask around cross
examination of Maya Millette's brother,
JP Table Lanza started Thursday morning
with the defense attorney suggesting
Maya voluntarily abandoned her family.
Entertain the thought
that perhaps your sister.
Wanted to go somewhere and she
didn't say goodbye to anybody.
No. And it soon progressed
to whether Maya had an affair
with a coworker, Mr. Miller.
Told you. That he caught your
sister cheating and having affair
with another man. Yes he did.
The cross examination went on for
hours as the judge repeatedly sustained
objections for irrelevant questioning
lacking foundation and beyond the scope.
Wrap it up, you've got a new
area that you want to cover,
something that that the prosecution
covered on direct and haven't
gotten to find otherwise.
I think you you, you got over
every aspect of this directive.
And redirect? The prosecutor responded.
Would your sister have left her children?
No, I don't think so. Would your sister
have left you and your siblings?
No, but your sister had left your parents.
No, especially with my mom's health.
After the lunch break, Christine
Timmers, a coworker and close
friend of Maya, took the stand.
She was definitely moving towards
more and more towards divorce.
Timmers testified for several months in
2020, Maya would go back and forth on
whether she should leave her husband.
She just explained that I still love him.
Obviously, he's the father of my.
Three children, and. I love him for that.
During a drive back from Temecula,
Timmers said Maya told her
Larry had taken control
of the couples investments.
She had asked him to please
don't touch certain ones.
These ones are what she
considered safe and for the kids.
And she was angry that even those
ones that she had specified,
he'd reinvested into Bitcoin or crypto.
December of 2020, she said.
Maya finally opened up about
her fears of getting divorced.
I asked her, OK, So what is it?
And. Through tears, she said.
I'm afraid that Larry will
will hurt the kids to hurt me.
In court today we learned the last tech text
message that Maya sent out to her friends
was on the evening of January 7th, 2021.
That's the same night she went missing.
She was telling her friends she was worried
about her children and the COVID pandemic.
David, this is going into two weeks
now of this preliminary hearing.
When can we expect this thing to wrap up?
The prosecution said today they
have about 5 witnesses left.
So the case is expected to wrap up
maybe as early as Monday of next week.
And then we'll find out if
this goes to trial,
which seems very likely at this point.
David Godberson reporting live for us.
Thanks, David.
We now know the name
of a woman stabbed to death at a pharmacy
in the college area earlier this week.
Police say 66 year old Mary Ellen
Carter was attacked by a quote
workplace colleague on Tuesday.
Police say officers shot and
killed that co-worker later
that night at a home in Crest.
His name has not been released,
but we know he was 77 years old.
We're told he was armed with a
shotgun and that officers tried
to subdue him with a beanbag gun,
but when that had no effect they
say they were forced to open fire.
We still don't have any motive
for the stabbing.
Police say Carter and the man were
either co-owners or Co employees at
the store where the stabbing happened,
but that also has not been made clear.
Tonight, the city of San Diego is
dispatching more crews to deal with the
increase in potholes you've probably
noticed driving around San Diego
since we've gotten all that rain.
Earlier today we caught up with
one of those crews fixing the
trouble spots along Balboa Ave.
in Claremont. Normally up to 9 two
person teams are available for repairs,
but now the city.
About 150 employees will be assigned.
City officials say the storm has increased
the daily average pothole reports from
200 to a backlog of more than 1600.
Seems like they're about 200
just on Balboa alone.
If you need to report potholes,
you can do it on the city of
San Diego's get it done app.
And if your car is damaged and you
can document all of that damage to
the location and all that information,
you can file a claim.
We've put that information on our website,
cbs8.com, just hours ago.
President Biden toured some of the
most storm ravaged areas of our state.
The president arrived here in
California this afternoon.
Where he took an aerial and ground
tour of the storm damage from the
past several weeks in the beach town
of Capitola in Santa Cruz County,
the president promised help for
those who've suffered losses.
The extreme weather was blamed
for at least 21 deaths.
We will have much more on
President Biden's visit coming up
new in our second-half hour.
Three people on board a small
plane are safe after an emergency
landing in the north county.
We're told engine trouble forced
the single engine plane down right
there in the waters off Carlsbad
State beach and it happened just
before 8:00 o'clock this morning.
CBS 8 Dana Marie Mcnicholl
has details from Carlsbad.
Any landing you walk away
from is a successful landing,
especially one made on the ocean.
So I do want to show you
where the plane is right now.
Resting on the sand.
You can see California State police
starting their investigation.
We also spoke to Carlsbad
Fire about their response.
Speaking with the pilot,
it sounds like they lost their
engine for one reason or another.
The three folks that were on board
were treated by my fire personnel and
elected to not go to the hospital.
Now we know the plane was coming
from Montgomery Gibbs Airport,
a decal on the plane.
Says learn to fly San Diego,
so I reached out to the flight
instruction company for confirmation.
Haven't heard from them yet,
but I did find the exact plane
and tail number on their website.
It's a four seater, single engine,
Piper Arrow, 200 horsepower complex plane.
According to a Carlsbad Beach Park aide,
the plane was flying north when they
noticed it was gliding above the water.
The front propeller wasn't spinning.
They said the plane landed on
the water during high tide,
so of course we still have a
lot of unanswered questions.
About how this happened right now,
the tide is now lower and the
plane is resting on the sand.
The cleanup process and
investigation is now underway.
I did see a gentleman with
the FAA arrived here on scene.
I spoke to members of the US Coast
Guard who were called in to check
on fuel that could have spilled
in the water during the landing.
They told me it's a non issue at the
moment and the Coast Guard isn't needed.
They say cleanup will be handled by
California State Parks from here on out.
I do know there's a tractor in the
parking lot waiting for the tide to recede.
So it can go down there and get
the plane off the beach so the
investigation can continue.
For any further updates,
you could head to cbs8.com.
I'm Dana Marie Mcnicoll coming
to you from Carlsbad.
Thanks, Dana. Still ahead tonight.
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