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Abe Martinez

Case from Salt Lake City, UT dated Jun 17, 2018

Victim Details

Abe Martinez

Male

Hispanic / Latino

Salt Lake City

UT

2018-06-17

44

Abe

Martinez

07/02/2026

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On a summer day in South Salt Lake, Utah, a grim series of events unfolded that ended in the death of 44-year-old Abe Martinez, a Hispanic male. On June 17, 2018, Martinez entered the home of his 89-year-old grandmother, Rose Martinez, and her 71-year-old husband. Martinez, who had recently been paroled from the federal prison system and had walked away from a halfway house just days earlier, took his elderly grandparents hostage in their residence near 450 E. Stanley Ave.

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  • The Salt Lake Tribune: Police identify man who killed elderly woman during South Salt Lake standoff as her grandson
  • https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/1143170
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