By Nathaniel Percy | Daily Breeze
A 29-year-old Inglewood man was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison last week for shooting to death a homeless man in a stairwell of a parking structure at the Redondo Beach pier earlier this year, authorities said.
Alexis Martinez pleaded no contest to first degree murder in Torrance Superior Court on Aug. 27, according to Redondo Beach police and court records. Martinez was scheduled for a preliminary hearing on that date at which prosecutors would have presented some of the evidence against him and a judge would rule whether enough evidence existed to have him stand trial on the charge.
Redondo Beach police responded to the pier parking structure, in the 100 block of Torrance Boulevard, about 6:10 a.m., on Feb. 16, after a city Public Works employee found 43-year-old Teddy Campos unconscious in one of the stairwells, police Capt. Michael Martinez said at the time of Alexis Martinez’s March 6 arrest.
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