- 02/08/2025
A popular high school teacher was gunned down in his driveway in cold blood as he got ready to leave for work. Detectives uncovered a chilling trail of online clues.
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00:009-1-1 emergency dispatcher 8144 there were two guys fighting and there was four or five gunshots
00:13police say mario fierro was shot and killed on a north park sidewalk this morning
00:18mario fierro was remembered as a leader at cathedral catholic high
00:28mario was um he's a great coach mentor teacher friend there were a total of seven shots fired
00:34it sounded like somebody was in a desperate situation
00:41i remember that the gunshots were somewhat slow methodical
00:48definitely appeared to be an execution
00:52this is what he's going to tell you how to get out of that situation
01:03and i grabbed the gun he's trying to find the first place to put a body no sir the only thing
01:08they could do was kill him you want to say anything we the jury and you find the defendant
01:12it was an early monday morning on february 1st it was a beautiful sunny day
01:29at cathedral catholic high school in north san diego it was the first day of classes after the
01:36pandemic lockdown excitement we're getting back to life we're getting back to you know what we all
01:42wanted which was normalcy and uh face-to-face interaction and the big news at the school was
01:49that two popular teachers were going to get married amy gambaro and mario fierro who announced their
01:55engagement over the christmas holiday once he met her he knew that that was the one they really hit it
02:01off they would go to church together and they would like grade papers together lesson plan together
02:07i think everybody loved it mario was a social science teacher coached football and he coached
02:15track and field everybody stay safe stay strong we're gonna beat this coronavirus he even helped to
02:22keep up morale during the pandemic amy was a religion teacher very positive deeply faithful um a deeply
02:38faithful woman which that was a nice compliment for for mario mario was very reliable he was never late
02:50once it got close to like eight o'clock and mario wasn't here everyone started to panic so the
02:57school's principal called a senior police officer whose daughter attended the school i need you to do
03:02a wellness check on mario fierro and it was silent on the other end of the line he said to me
03:11kevin it's not good um you know mario was murdered uh this morning outside of his house
03:18the police said about 7 10 monday morning they responded to calls of shots fired on kansas street
03:26in north park 911 emergency dispatcher 814 on kansas street and there's uh five gun shots there were two
03:34guys fighting and there was four or five gun shots mario fierro was pronounced dead at the scene after
03:39san diego police found him shot and on the ground near his car police say they have very few leads about
03:46the suspect i was considering that maybe this was a potential like robbery gone bad attempted carjacking
03:51gone bad with the trunk lid open there was no surveillance video of the scene but a camera down
03:57the street picked up the audio of the incident
04:00there were a total of seven shots fired i believe he was struck about six times majority of the rounds
04:18that struck him were all into the face and into the back of the head definitely appeared to be an
04:24execution it sounded like somebody was in a desperate situation
04:34i remember that the gunshots were somewhat slow methodical
04:45there seemed to be a purpose behind the pauses between the gunshots
04:49detectives first headed to the high school and turned their attention to mario's fiancee amy when
04:56they brought amy into my office to let her know that mario had been murdered she let out this like
05:04scream of um
05:09yeah just a scream of like sadness and and crying uncontrollably
05:14um downtown at the district attorney's office prosecutors had feared this day might come it was
05:22very emotional and my heart just shattered because um we wanted to protect amy and we wanted to protect
05:31mario over the last year mario and amy had appealed to the da's special family protection unit
05:38for help our office received information that amy was a target of stalking by her ex-boyfriend jesse alvarez
05:50stalkers not only target the object of their obsession but many times they go after them and hurt them by
06:00targeting the people that they love alvarez had been spotted again and again on the high school campus
06:06after amy broke up with him he had applied for a number of teaching positions as a way to try to
06:13get on the staff here and you know we were aware of the situation and you know and i had actually
06:20communicated with him a few times saying hey what you know we're not interested thanks for your
06:24application hey me it's jesse how's it going hopefully you're well jesse would post selfies of
06:30himself at the high school and leave repeated phone messages for amy hey so i just wanted to
06:36call to say hey and ask if it would be okay if we could talk sometime so yeah that's all um hope that
06:44your news clear is going well god bless you and your students and hope to hear from you soon uh you know
06:50how to contact me thanks so much it all led amy to seek a temporary restraining order against jesse
06:57and then apply to make it permanent she was able to articulate that this something was off and she
07:03was scared she knew that something bad was going to happen
07:11mr alvarez in return filed a very lengthy response just attacking every single thing that she said and
07:20coming up with one justification after another and mr alvarez had given the court his word that he would
07:27no longer be contacting amy her friends whether directly or indirectly and the court took mr alvarez's
07:36word he bamboozled the judge ultimately and the judge ended up denying amy's restraining order request
07:44and within days jesse was right back at it showing up again at the high school he came in kind of you
07:51know incognito and he tried to mix in like he was a cathedral catholic employee he even jumped in a
07:59picture with other students uh from from cathedral catholic he never stopped he immediately went back
08:06into social media and added just under 100 clubs from cathedral catholic high school was trying to
08:14friend all of her friends her colleagues was sending messages to them at one point jesse actually got a
08:21job in the school kitchen whose employees are hired by an outside provider and i just went up to him and
08:28and i just started asking him questions why are you you know why are you here and he was very evasive at
08:33first and so i just said to him i said hey do you know anybody on campus here and he said to me no i don't
08:40i don't know anybody and i said you sure and he said well maybe there's somebody i know and that's
08:47when i said you know exactly uh who i'm talking about and i just said you're not welcome on this campus
08:53you need to leave things came to a head when jesse was in peru on a christmas family vacation
09:00on december 21st there's an engagement announcement that goes out through the facebook for cathedral high
09:08school and that sets him off and he goes instantly into searching both amy the school the campus he
09:18starts mapping the campus i'm talking hundreds of searches but he escalates up to christmas eve where
09:24he's looking at hiring a hitman if i shoot somebody in the head can i kill him he's trying to figure out
09:30how to get to amy he's looking at routes that our victim mario might take to work
09:39in the early morning hours of february 1st a car pulls into a parking spot across the street from
09:45mario fierro's apartment this is a man on a mission on a mission to kill
10:06students and staff at cathedral catholic high school are grieving the loss of a popular teacher
10:11and football coach students were showing up crying at the scene the school was devastated they loved both
10:16mario and amy mario was um he was a great coach mentor teacher friend um somebody you always could
10:23count on whenever you need help or whenever you're in doubt the best lead for the homicide detectives
10:28was what appeared to be the getaway car there was a witness that was driving by and that saw portions
10:34of what occurred she described a uh a dark colored sedan it was a dark colored volkswagen hatchback
10:41couldn't tell who was driving i don't believe we could make out a license plate clearly
10:47but the presumption was that it was jesse alvarez who was behind the wheel and that he would next
10:52target the high school they began evacuations they they had the school just completely surrounded and
11:00i personally believe that the san diego police department prevented a mass shooting at that
11:06school another team was racing to find alvarez heading to his family's home in san diego where
11:11they found a volkswagen hatchback parked outside we ended up doing a surrounded call out where we had
11:19the uniformed members of our gang unit surround the home jesse was the final subject to exit the home he
11:26was taken into custody ron newquest and christopher lahey are highly experienced detectives in their
11:36field and they're brilliant at what they do no karate right like kung fu he's this very soft 30 year
11:44old comes across as kind of an oddball um but he's very cooperative overly cooperative you guys are
11:51our friends you know you guys are magnus supporters too he's like i'm back the blue and he was telling
11:57us how uh pro uh police he was i mentioned to you before you know i've been fully behind the back the
12:04blue movement this last year and very conservative and you know i think it's appalling how law enforcement
12:11has been you know demonized and reputation's been hurt this last year they're not supportables
12:17and you know ron and i are like you know real quick jesse i'm ron newquist i didn't introduce myself
12:24to you but but you know we we he never asked us why he's there he doesn't say hey am i here for a
12:28murder like what are you guys doing all right so um like i said i won't be directly beat around the bush
12:35or anything else you you're 30 years old um you have no idea why we're here today no sir okay well let me
12:45ask you this we we i work homicide this is my boss here we both work several cases um we went to an
12:53address today over in north park on kansas street um to a guy named mario fiero's house do you know
12:59mario fiero no sir okay um never heard that name before in your life no sir okay um what about
13:09did you date a girl named amy we were friends okay but we did not date once we got on the topic of amy
13:16and asked him about amy uh he developed what we call convenient amnesia okay do you know amy's last name
13:23i don't remember i don't recall okay gimbara is that same familiar to you sounds familiar but i don't
13:31recall okay well the reason i'm asking about amy is her boyfriend is this guy mario fiero
13:39who this morning was shot and killed outside of his apartment in north park um and
13:46and so that that's why so amy we're looking at dating relationships she had with people i haven't
13:53talked to her very long times okay his body language is not defensive no crossing of the arms
13:59he thinks he's gonna outsmart us and talk his way out of this all right and maybe i have the wrong jesse
14:05you go by jesse right yeah j-e-s-s-e yeah okay have you ever applied for any jobs that had cathedral eyes
14:16i don't think so we start to crack the foundation of what he's saying but very nice
14:22we also have court documents with your name on it with jesse alvarez where apparently she's tried to
14:27get restraining orders against you has there ever been a temporary or a permanent restraining order
14:33she once tried to file an order against me because i was trying to contact her about something but
14:44you know we we went to court and i very clearly explained like i just did to you right now that
14:49we were just friends and that she lied about me and i was dismissed okay so and then okay yeah and that
14:56and i did hear that as well okay so at least we established we're talking about the right amy
15:01kimbara and then you're you're just definitely the jesse alvarez she fits i think she is just a very
15:09kind of desperate insecure individual and i'll be completely frank with you like she
15:15yeah just is kind of very aggressive emotionally and you know she i think has some kind of maybe
15:22histrionic mental disorder or something like that are you aware that she was engaged to a guy named mario
15:28okay by then detectives at the scene had reported back that the getaway car was actually owned by
15:35jesse's brother we find our victim's dna on the steering wheel and on the floor mat do you drive
15:43your brother's car no i drive my toyota prius okay this morning did you drive your brother's car just by
15:52i did not okay so i then i tried to bring his mom into it because i know he's very close to his mom and
15:58i said your mom's a great woman don't put her in this position so you're when you were when you were
16:04taken into custody today because we do believe there you were involved in it your mom was interviewed by
16:09another homicide detective she says you know what my son left at 6 30 this morning he left in my other
16:15son's car without his permission he returned an hour and a half later and he claimed he'd been for a
16:22you've been on a hiking trip did you tell your mom this morning you went hiking or did you go on a hike
16:28today i did exercise in the morning but where at i went to the pacific beach in your brother's car
16:35uh no i no i was in my car so that's weird okay your mom tells us this morning that you
16:45purchased a gun or got a gun on january 15th and had it painted white is that true
16:53yes that is true okay detectives at the alvarez home found the white gun and a white rifle in the
16:59garage he recently just got them cerakoted to appear as if they're stormtrooper guns which kind
17:07of piqued our interest because one of our witnesses described seeing a white plastic looking thermometer
17:14and his mother also told detectives that her son had been practicing with the guns at a nearby
17:19firing range you practice with that gun your mom says you did that's why i'm asking i'm not trying
17:26to trick you so right yeah no i i um yeah have have gone to the last time you went and shot it um
17:35i uh let's see
17:40like a little over a week ago i practiced at a range are you the one that shot mario in the head with a
17:46white gun no okay but you're you're a smart guy you traveled all over the world you gotta really
17:51what do you think should happen to somebody that does something like that that kills another person
17:56well that person should go to prison that's horrible yeah you know and then i went to amy
18:01i said she's gutted you've destroyed her
18:09um i mean and then then he catches his breath and he he wants to spit it out but
18:16he can't i know you're at war in your mind i've seen it before you're like you're fighting yourself
18:20like do i just let it go and tell the truth or do i yeah sorry i'm just you know trying to
18:26gather my thoughts i
18:32i did
18:38i did
18:38i did um
18:48i don't know where to begin um at the beginning it's simple
18:53one of the ways i like to interview especially homicide suspects they try to get as far away
19:09from you as they can so i purposely positioned the table closer to them and put my chair closer to them
19:15you're also you're a guy that cares about people what makes you drive there this morning i i did want
19:22to talk to him yeah and you know kind of just like we're having man-made conversation just sort of
19:32say hey like and then i went up to him and just started engaging and introduced myself but as soon as i
19:39did he got really really angry and aggressive instantly instantly he cracked right away you know
19:49and gives it up but he he's he's already setting up a self-defense like he said like oh you're jesse
19:55and he started saying you enough like cussing at me and stuff and i said hey hey like yeah calm down
20:01like it's i just wanted to talk with you and then he did actually try to grab me he aggressively
20:07attacked me yeah there was a fight i i i acted out of retaliation i did not initiate anything and then
20:16this never happens in homicide interviews but detective lady says hey do you mind reenacting
20:21this do you mind standing up and using me as a yeah i mean i i you know i don't know to what extent
20:31i'll be able to like accurately recall everything he's lower than you correct and can you put that
20:36because he lunges at you like this yeah exactly okay like this yeah like grabbing me and then how
20:43do you shoot him with the head shots the face shots how does that happen like i just remember shooting
20:49downward okay so he's lower is that is this accurate yeah that that seems accurate like he's like holding
20:55on to me but your body to body when this happens i mean you're that close to each other this is close
20:59well yeah is it more like is my am i is my head the same distance or is it closer like can you can
21:07you push you can push my head i'm not i trust you honestly i only recall like just him like like in
21:13the position you're talking about and me just firing downward is it like let go of me like this
21:17uh-huh okay and then how many of those rounds were fired when he was down below you i don't recall exactly but
21:26you know we got five casings at the scene one on fire ground so that's six but five five rounds
21:33appear to have been fired so what he described to us was inconsistent with the crime scene evidence
21:40but instead he chose to lie because what he did wasn't perfect self-defense it was premeditated murder
21:48so you shoot him and there's like a pause i mean you kind of walk to your car or what do you do like
21:52what do you say anything to him or do you just honestly i i was just in shock and i i
22:04yeah i didn't even did you think you might have killed him though i'm just asking that jesse like
22:08as you drove away and you're like oh my god i just killed the man or it might have honestly it i i
22:14didn't know it looked like he was just unconscious okay but i am going to tell you that his wounds were
22:21catastrophic like i mean unfortunately there was brain batter all over the ground but that's not
22:25something you recall the amount of blood like no it didn't go on your shoes or pants or you no all
22:30this happens and um you don't you don't call 9-1-1 correct correct right you don't go to the 7-eleven
22:38or get get off at a gas station and use a pay phone or ask them to call 9-1-1 correct
22:43no meanwhile in getting updated on the progress of the search warrant while this is going on
22:48you'll see me on the interview getting texts and i'm looking down but they they find all
22:52this damning evidence uh jesse still has pictures of him and amy on the shelves but he's like a he's
23:00like a cathedral billboard for the high school with hats and clothing i intend on going through your
23:05phone because that's something we have to do would you allow us to go through your phone oh absolutely
23:10like i don't have anything to hide but a search of alvarez's internet activity was another gold mine
23:17of evidence the night before the murder he went to youtube and watched an instructional video
23:23on how to shoot a firearm without flushing
23:30so he watched that went to bed and the next day killed mark so so let me tell you this tonight and i
23:37appreciate you i mean we had a normal conversation here this is not going it's going to be kind of
23:42a long drawn out we haven't somebody died it's a homicide there's nothing more serious than that
23:47we take more serious than the loss of a human being absolutely in law enforcement and what society deems
23:54you know the most serious crime with that being said tonight you are under arrest or murder
24:00but his parents hired one of the city's top defense lawyers who helped to fashion a novel
24:09self-defense theory that jesse alvarez was on the autism spectrum obviously this was a a terrible
24:16tragedy and a crime but if you take jesse's autism out of the picture i think mario would still be alive
24:24today good morning we're heading out to san diego for opening statements in the case against jesse
24:43alvarez the jilted lover accused of killing his rival a beloved high school teacher mario fierro
24:49alvarez's lawyer said he needed a cane after being injured during fights with other inmates
24:56when i first saw him at court he kind of looked like the shell of a person i was there every day
25:04i felt like i had a right to know what was what was happening what was being said it's the jesse
25:11alvarez show it always has been everything's about him his ego his bruised ego his sense of needing to
25:18have power and control so i wanted the jury to see that this is a man on a mission on a mission to
25:24kill evidence shows that he waited almost an hour
25:31for mr fierro to walk out of his home
25:39and then he murdered him he was just getting ready to go to work he was unarmed he had no idea
25:45that the defendant applied a surprise attack for its opening the defense told the jury that a new
25:52medical diagnosis would explain why jesse felt he had to shoot mario you're going to hear evidence
25:58in this case that mr alvarez suffers from autism spectrum disorder in other words he's autistic
26:05and mr alvarez falls in the category of a high-functioning autistic person so it wasn't diagnosed until
26:12this case i know that there's some people that think and misinterpreted it as us using autism as
26:17an excuse to get a murderer off and that's not what we were doing social situations are a very
26:24hard such a hard part of mr alvarez's life and he doesn't always look at things the way someone who
26:31does not suffer from autism looks at life it looks at relationships mr alvarez is going to tell you at
26:38that point mr ferro came toward him assaulting him hitting him mr alvarez will tell you that he
26:45finally took the gun out and pointed it at mr ferro's body and said stop just stop he's a kid backing
26:55up then mr alvarez unfortunately then shot five more times someone in his situation with that disability
27:03was using reasonable force based on what he believed was happening it was so insulting to use
27:11that as a defense it's so insulting to the autism community the prosecution began its case with amy
27:20who described jesse's stalking i saw the the defendant attempted to
27:25to get into my apartment i knew that i didn't feel safe because
27:38i told him no
27:39to show premeditation the prosecution called a trainer from the firing range colin vaz he had
27:55asked me where is the best place to shoot someone to kill them i corrected him and they told him that
28:03we did not shoot to kill someone we were trying to stop a threat um but then he asked me a follow-up
28:09question he said well what about the back of the head um is it fair to say that they jump down
28:15at you because that's not a common question that you get in these classes he's not coming
28:22the prosecution closed out his case with the video of alvarez confessing to the shooting
28:28and me just firing downward is it like let go of me like this uh-huh okay and with detective
28:34christopher lahey on the stand the prosecution played the audio of the shots fired
28:42what was most notable to me was the passage in time the prolonged passage of time between the
29:03first gunshot to the second gunshot
29:06the audio was important because you could hear the cadence of those shots it's so eerie
29:19so now the stage was set for jesse alvarez to take the stand and tell the jury
29:24why he believed he had to shoot mario fierro
29:36so we knew that jesse was going to testify from the beginning
29:46and that he was going to explain what exactly happened
29:49yeah trouble controlling your your impulses
29:53my you know autism disability that i say in retrospect um because i did not know at that time
30:00um i i couldn't i couldn't take the hint
30:03i just you know to me it just went over my head and all right so you got a crew down down
30:09amy got engaged right that's correct
30:13surely thereafter you google higher hitman san diego
30:17i do that so i think that you know part of my emotional reaction was that
30:27you know i i felt kind of just kind of robbed i guess like i i just all of a sudden i was replaced so
30:39quickly and so i started having these uh yeah bad fantasies of just like um wishing that he was
30:49he was he was gone or dead or not there anymore alvarez testified that as he arrived in the early
30:55morning hours outside mario's apartment god spoke to him i parked and then i started praying and just
31:05started asking lord our god for some wisdom guidance and sign discernment as to how to most peaceably and
31:12amicably um talk with mr furrow and address the concerns that we had that i had okay so mario you
31:22see mario come out of his apartment well i said good morning mario how are you my name is jesse alvarez
31:28and and and then um yeah he he began to cut me off and he he looked directly at me and he said to me
31:43the hardest parts were we're definitely hearing jesse alvarez testify it was hard for my dad he was
31:51he was not happy with the the lies that jesse was telling that mario was like attacking him he tried
31:59to grab onto my neck as if to strangle me i again tried to push him away and said please stop please
32:05stop and he wouldn't and so i had my arm up just trying to block my block him from his advances and
32:11i pulled out my firearm and i showed it to him to say stop stop and i thought when he would see the
32:18firearm he would stop but instead he tried to seize the firearm from my hand and we were wrestling over
32:24it and he started to point it towards my direction and then he got his fingers around the trigger and
32:32he pulled it and the gun discharged i shot him in the back and he stopped and he i put my gun down he
32:41went to his knees and i and i just you know i stopped and then he got up from his knees and looked
32:49at me again he again he said kill you and he rushed me again and i i just aimed downward i shot we had a
32:59back and forth and he got lower and lower to the point of of stopping and i was just in such trauma and
33:06shock of what happened that i i i just i didn't know what to do and i just i just left and i got
33:13in my car and i drove away number of questions
33:20all right cross examination yes mr alvarez you told us yesterday that when you saw this photograph
33:28you went through a series of emotions correct yes i wanted to put the picture up of amy and mario's
33:39engagement post because that was the trigger you testified yesterday that you were wishing after you
33:47saw this photograph that mr fiero was gone or dead or not here anymore correct believe yes that is what i
33:57said yesterday now ms gambara made it crystal clear to you that she wanted nothing to do with you right
34:08she did communicate that you researched
34:13the best place to shoot someone in the head to kill them correct again yes the question aren't the answer
34:21for a question i already knew the answer for you did shoot mr piero in the back of the head correct
34:30that's what the evidence shows did you shoot mr piero in the back of the head yes or no that's what the
34:38evidence shows i don't independently remember that you didn't just shoot him once in the back of the
34:42head mr alvarez you shot him twice in the back of the head correct according to the evidence stated then
34:48yes let's just let's just be very clear you're the one who killed mr fiero right yes i've testified to
34:56that you put six bullets in his body correct yes i understand that you put two in his forehead right
35:04yes you put two in the back of his head right yes and you also shot him in the back right right
35:11now you even researched how to get away with killing someone including looking up the california
35:21self-defense laws right right now mr alvarez will you remind us what defense are you going with in this
35:27case of course self-defense and you're testifying to us twice now that that was the most traumatic day
35:37of your life correct yes ma'am as i've described i almost died and i my family were violently arrested
35:46by the police he brutally executed a man simply because that man was in love with his ex-girlfriend
35:56but it was the worst day of jesse alvarez's life go for the question
36:07the final witness for the defense was the clinical psychologist they hired to test alvarez
36:16were you able to come to a conclusion regarding mr alvarez suffering from a particular mental disorder
36:23yes i diagnosed him with autism spectrum disorder and i also diagnosed him with obsessive compulsive
36:29disorder the things that i wanted to point out that mr alvarez can still act with intention
36:36but person with autism can purchase a gun correct correct they can go to court and be able to test
36:44it by advocating correct correct in other words people with autism they can still have goal-oriented
36:51behavior behavior correct absolutely this is mario fiaro and he's no longer with us in december
37:06of 2020 he proposed to miss gambara on december 21st of 2020 the defendant miss gambara's possessive and
37:17obsessive and jealous ex-boyfriend saw that announcement mr fiaro was already dead by that time
37:28because when the defendant saw that he had methodically plotted out his execution an execution
37:38that he ended up doing on february 1st of 2021 this is not a self-defense case and frankly it's insulting
37:51it's insulting the defense is going to come up here because the defendant is claiming that this was
37:56self-defense and then he's going to tell you that it has to do with his diagnosis
38:02and that's just insulting as well because he knew exactly what he was doing he had a goal and he
38:08obtained that goal and that goal was to murder mr fiaro thank you all right thank you miss mccarthy
38:16morning obviously jesse could not get over
38:24maybe more than any of us have ever seen defense lawyer peter blair told the jury
38:29alvarez's autism diagnosis was the key factor in the self-defense argument you got to see how jesse
38:36just doesn't get it at all when it comes to dealing with other humans
38:42and it's always been a problem he's a smart person we know people that suffer from autism are not
38:48dangerous people and that's not what we were trying to uh imply whatsoever in fact it's just the opposite
38:54it was that there were certain things that jesse just didn't get that put him in a terrible situation
39:01um and his behavior i think is reflected by those those symptoms jesse alvarez was defending himself
39:10it was not her i asked that you both have
39:16and happening right now jury deliberations continuing in the murder trial against jesse
39:22alvarez the jury was out for friday afternoon then a weekend and then most of monday i was thinking
39:29holy might have actually won this thing all right the people of state of california versus jesse
39:38milton alvarez verdict count one we the jury in the above entitled cause find the defendant hey me it's
39:46jesse has it gone jesse milton alvarez uh if you could please uh call or
39:57guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree he seemed like he didn't want people to look like to
40:02be looking at him i don't hold anger for him i don't even know if i pity him i guess i'm kind of
40:08disgusted by him jesse alvarez was brought into court in a wheelchair after banging his head against the
40:19floor in what prosecutors said was another apparent attempt to delay the sentencing he found a host of
40:28ways to manage a continuance after another continuance after another continuance which is just
40:37again it's about him your honor uh miss amy gambara is here present virtually and she would
40:45like to make an impact mario fiero was my beloved fiance who was maliciously murdered by jesse alvarez
40:58one moment mario and i were planning our wedding then the next moment our loved ones were planning
41:05his funeral the level of disrespect that he gave them it's not surprising but he just kept his head
41:12down the entire time you couldn't even look at them though i am here four years after mario's life was
41:19taken i am ready to leave behind the label of victim and trade it to survivor
41:31i stand for those whose voices cannot be heard i stand for women who have experienced domestic violence
41:39not here today who had to deal with men who cannot take no for an answer
41:44his conviction carried a mandatory sentence of life without parole or the death penalty we didn't want
41:52to pursue like the death penalty or anything like that we wanted life without parole an eye for an eye
42:00makes the whole world blind as gandhi said has had his face down on a table now for 50 minutes
42:06it's the court's opinion that everything we've watched in court since the verdict
42:09has been theatrics and um he's a cold-hearted killer this is as cold-hearted as you can get
42:19so it was life without parole with the judge adding 25 years more for the charge of lying in wait
42:27nothing bring mario back but there is there is a sense of justice that he's going to spend the rest of
42:33his life behind bars and he's never going to be able to stalk amy again hurt amy again or hurt anybody that she loves
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