Opening statements are scheduled today in the trial of a man accused in the shooting death more than six years ago of a Somali man outside a City Heights taco shop.
Shane Christopher Pilson, 23, is one of two men charged with murder in the Aug. 14, 2003, slaying of 26-year-old Khadar Hasan. Co-defendant Sherman Strong, 31, is charged with murder and being tried separately in October.
San Diego police Sgt. David Johnson testified at a preliminary hearing that he was told the defendants targeted a group of Somali men, because one of them stabbed Pilson’s sister.
Additional testimony indicated the defendants may have only intended to rob the men.
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