Mother of Marine veteran killed outside Boston bar stares down bouncer accused in his murder
A dramatic moment in a Boston courtroom on Thursday. The mother of a US Marine veteran who was stabbed to death outside the Sons of Boston bar near Faneuil Hall traveled from Chicago to see her son’s accused killer, and never took her eyes off him during a hearing into the case.
“I needed to see the person that took my son’s life,” said Apolonia Martinez.
Her son, Daniel Martinez, a 23-year-old Marine veteran from Illinois, was fatally stabbed outside the Sons of Boston bar on Union Street bar in an altercation on March 19. Martinez was in Boston visiting a friend when he was stabbed.
A bouncer at the bar, 38-year-old Alvaro Larrama, of East Boston, is charged with murder and is being held without bail.
Larrama’s case returned to court Thursday and the Martinez family traveled from Chicago to be there.
Martinez’s mother said her son had his whole life ahead of them, and she wanted Larrama to know the depth of her loss.
“I needed him to feel the sorrow and the heartbreak that I feel, that my family feels,” said Mrs. Martinez “I needed him to feel the weight of my tears I have cried. My heart is broken.”
“He needed to see it and I know he felt it,” she said. “If you were in that courtroom, you felt it too.”
“I couldn’t take my eyes off of him because I needed him to see the person that he destroyed; the person that he killed along with my son,” she said.
“He killed a part of my heart when he did that. So that’s why I never took my eyes off of him.”
Matthew Martinez, Daniel’s twin brother, accompanied his mother to court, Thursday. Matthew was the one to take Daniel to the airport when he left for Boston. Matthew will never forget the call about his brother’s murder.
“Just shocked. I was with my cousins at the time and I was just in shock. What do we do,” said Matthew.
Daniel Martinez had finished his active-duty service as a U.S. Marine about a year ago, after serving for four years.
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Boston’s Licensing Board suspended the bar’s operating license indefinitely after information surfaced there was a history of issues and nobody reported Larrama after police say he came back into the bar to change after the stabbing. The Martinez family attorney, Tom Flaws, says they are taking civil action before the criminal case is resolved. “We still have a lot of questions and that’s why we are announcing by the end of the week the civil lawsuit, the wrongful death lawsuit against sons of Boston,” said Flaws.
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Boston 25 News Reporter Robert Goulston talked to the attorney for Sons of Boston on the phone, Thursday, but she would not comment on the case including that potential civil wrongful death case. Larrama will be back in criminal court on June 15.
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