Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs

Carlsbad Man: "Well, Then Shoot Me"

Sixty-three-year-old Michael Sahagun reportedly told a trio of thugs who attempted to rob him in his own garage, “Well then shoot me,” before he was killed with a single shotgun blast to his chest. Sahagun was refusing to cooperate with demands to empty his pockets and raise his hands.

Joseph Robertson Verkade, 35, is accused of being the shooter at the home on Valley Street in Carlsbad. It was in the early morning hours of April Fools Day, 2011, that neighbors heard what they described as a “pop,” and then Mrs. Frances Munoz Sahagun screaming when she found her husband.

According to authorities, Grant MacGregor Hunter, 24, told a third party that he rushed the fatally wounded man and added a knife slash to the chest wound before he went through the dying man’s pockets. Hunter took with him a “quarter ounce” of an unspecified substance when he and Verkade and Mercedes Tiffany Yorba, 20, allegedly ran back to the get-away vehicle, a truck driven by Michael Allen Gault, 31.

There was testimony that Heather Marie Smedley a.k.a. Strauch, 33, was seated on the back bench of the extended-cab truck and her feet rested on the sawed-off shotgun placed on the floorboards, wrapped in green plastic and somebody’s jacket.

Surveillance videos from an Oceanside motel and gasoline station reportedly trace the movements of certain persons and the truck involved in the crime.

All six defendants were ordered held for trial at the end of a multi-day preliminary hearing in San Diego’s North County Superior Courthouse. Each pleads not guilty through a public defender.

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/22/21393/

Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all

Previous article

Birding & Brews: Breakfast Edition, ZZ Ward, Doggie Street Festival & Pet Adopt-A-Thon

Events November 21-November 23, 2024

Sixty-three-year-old Michael Sahagun reportedly told a trio of thugs who attempted to rob him in his own garage, “Well then shoot me,” before he was killed with a single shotgun blast to his chest. Sahagun was refusing to cooperate with demands to empty his pockets and raise his hands.

Joseph Robertson Verkade, 35, is accused of being the shooter at the home on Valley Street in Carlsbad. It was in the early morning hours of April Fools Day, 2011, that neighbors heard what they described as a “pop,” and then Mrs. Frances Munoz Sahagun screaming when she found her husband.

According to authorities, Grant MacGregor Hunter, 24, told a third party that he rushed the fatally wounded man and added a knife slash to the chest wound before he went through the dying man’s pockets. Hunter took with him a “quarter ounce” of an unspecified substance when he and Verkade and Mercedes Tiffany Yorba, 20, allegedly ran back to the get-away vehicle, a truck driven by Michael Allen Gault, 31.

There was testimony that Heather Marie Smedley a.k.a. Strauch, 33, was seated on the back bench of the extended-cab truck and her feet rested on the sawed-off shotgun placed on the floorboards, wrapped in green plastic and somebody’s jacket.

Surveillance videos from an Oceanside motel and gasoline station reportedly trace the movements of certain persons and the truck involved in the crime.

All six defendants were ordered held for trial at the end of a multi-day preliminary hearing in San Diego’s North County Superior Courthouse. Each pleads not guilty through a public defender.

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/22/21393/

Sponsored
Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Seventy-three-year-old man accused of hotel fracas

Next Article

Murder suspect in custody three years with no evidence presented yet

Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed Big Screen — Movie commentary Blurt — Music's inside track Booze News — San Diego spirits Classical Music — Immortal beauty Classifieds — Free and easy Cover Stories — Front-page features Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts Feast! — Food & drink reviews Feature Stories — Local news & stories Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore From the Archives — Spotlight on the past Golden Dreams — Talk of the town The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it Letters — Our inbox Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news News Ticker — News & politics Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated Poetry — The old and the new Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers Reading — The hunt for intellectuals Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds SD on the QT — Almost factual news Sheep and Goats — Places of worship Special Issues — The best of Street Style — San Diego streets have style Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves Theater — On stage in San Diego this week Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads Your Week — Daily event picks
4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs
Close

Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

This Week’s Reader This Week’s Reader