Court documents shed new light on incident that led to manslaughter charge for Pueblo man

PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) -- Court documents are shedding new light on an incident in Pueblo that is being investigated as manslaughter.

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Russel Martinez is charged with killing his friend last month. He claims that was not his intention.

According to his arrest affidavit, a man entered Martinez's home on E. Evans Ave. on July 24. What started as a verbal argument quickly became physical. At one point, Martinez locked himself and his four-year-old grandson inside a bedroom.

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Martinez told detectives he was scared for himself and the child and fired a rifle through the bedroom door thinking he would hit the man he was fighting with.

Instead of hitting that man, the bullet from the rifle hit Martinez's friend, 56-year-old Vincent Smith.

Smith did not survive. Russel Martinez was arrested on Aug. 10 for manslaughter and booked into the Pueblo County Jail.