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On April 14, 2004, Mario Alvarez, a 41-year-old resident of San Diego, was fatally shot in front of his home on Cottonwood Drive while fixing his nephew's bicycle. Earlier in the day, Alvarez had intervened to help his next-door neighbor during a confrontation between a man in a car and a woman who appeared to be in distress in an alley behind the neighbor's apartment. The man left the scene after the confrontation, but later returned with another individual in the car.
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On April 14, 2004, Mario Alvarez, a 41-year-old resident of San Diego, was fatally shot in front of his home on Cottonwood Drive while fixing his nephew's bicycle. Earlier in the day, Alvarez had intervened to help his next-door neighbor during a confrontation between a man in a car and a woman who appeared to be in distress in an alley behind the neighbor's apartment. The man left the scene after the confrontation, but later returned with another individual in the car.
As Alvarez was w ...Read More
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Mario Alvarez
November 15, 2022
Male
Hispanic / Latino
San Diego
CA
2004-04-14
41
Mario
Alvarez
11/06/2025
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