A 21-year-old man was scheduled for arraignment Friday in Santa Ana on charges of killing another man in the Gardenwalk parking structure in May.
Aristeo Martinez of Phoenix is charged with murder with sentencing enhancements for discharge of a firearm causing great bodily injury or death and the personal use of a firearm, according to court records.
Martinez, who was arrested earlier this month in Arizona, was scheduled to be arraigned in the jail courtroom in Santa Ana.
He is accused of killing 32-year-old Deonte Marquis Lenin of Highland on May 21, Anaheim police Sgt. Jon McClintock said earlier this month.
Police were dispatched to a large fight at the shopping center in the 300 block of West Katella Avenue just after 2 a.m., McClintock said.
“We believe the parties involved in the fight were involved in some type of altercation or fight in the HEAT Ultra Lounge,” which is in the Gardenwalk shopping center, McClintock said.
Police were still investigating what sparked the fight. It does not appear the people involved in the dispute knew each other beforehand, McClintock said.
When officers arrived, they found Lenin suffering from at least one gunshot wound, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. A second victim — 21-year-old Elian Tanori Arvayo of Phoenix — was found elsewhere in the parking structure suffering from “blunt force trauma,” McClintock said.
Arvayo was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, McClintock said.
Martinez, who was being held in a Maricopa County Jail, was booked on suspicion of killing Lenin. Investigators were still working the other killing and have not yet identified a suspect.