Victims, Suspect Identified in Fatal Shooting Near San Diego Courthouse

A police officer wounded in the incident was taken to a trauma center for treatment of a bullet wound to his hip.
Victims, Suspect Identified in Fatal Shooting Near San Diego Courthouse
A San Diego Police Department vehicle in San Diego on Jan. 19, 2023. Mark Mathews/The Epoch Times
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SAN DIEGO—Authorities Thursday publicly identified a married couple who were fatally shot this week near the downtown San Diego County courthouse and the man—a former boyfriend of the woman’s—who allegedly gunned them down before being killed in a law enforcement shootout.

Rachael Martinez, 31, and her 39-year-old husband, Jose Medina, were seated in a car in the 1300 block of Union Street in the Core-Columbia district when Christopher Farrell, 26, allegedly opened fire on them with a pistol shortly before 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to the San Diego Police Department (SDPD).

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