SALEM – “I shot him. I think I shot him in the heart. It is 25 to life,” Bonrad Sok told friends after he killed Cristian Vargas-Martinez in November 2007, Assistant District Attorney James P. Gubitose told jurors in his opening arguments in Salem Superior Court Thursday.The jury, comprised of five women and nine men, will continue today to hear testimony in Sok’s first-degree murder trial.Sok, 18, of 103 Warren St., is one of two Lynn men charged in the gang-related shooting of Vargas-Martinez outside the Golden Lake Restaurant at 38 Bennet St. on Nov. 1, 2007.”He wanted him dead. He set it in motion and that is what he did,” said Gubitose as he presented his case.Vargas-Martinez, a member of the Crips, a major gang at odds with the Bloods, went to the restaurant with girlfriend Judy Choeun after he finished work that day.Sok, a member of the Bloods, also went with his friends and, when he saw Vargas-Martinez, he made a phone call to Kevin Keo, the other man charged in connection with the murder, and told him the man with the machete was there, referring to a previous altercation .Keo, 18, of 21 Morris St., left home with his friend Tony Chhay and went to the restaurant armed with a .22 caliber handgun that Keo took from his bedroom.Then Sok, along with two others, confronted Vargas-Martinez as he was leaving the establishment outside in the parking lot asking him several times, “are you a Cuz,” which refers to Crips gang members.Vargas-Martinez then went back inside the restaurant and a confrontation began before he again left with Choeun. But Sok and his friends followed them outside for a second time, and a single shot was fired. Vargas-Martinez was shot once in the chest from a .22 caliber handgun.Sok and Keo fled along with the others and went to a home at 83 Neptune St., where they met a female friend who invited them to go to a party.Gubitose said Sok, Keo and a female got into the back seat of a car where Sok admitted to shooting Vargas-Martinez to the others while en route to the party.Defense lawyer James B. Krasnoo said in his opening that the evidence will show Keo “did the shooting,” that Keo brought the gun to the restaurant and that there was no exchange of the gun.Krasnoo is hoping for a lesser verdict in the case, or a not guilty for Sok.He expects to argue issues such as voice identification involving the statement Sok made to friends, along with precise locations of where police found the bullet casing and where witnesses were standing at the time of the shooting.Choeun, 19, who was pregnant at the time with Vargas-Martinez’ daughter, now 1, took the stand giving her version of the incident.Choeun said Vargas-Martinez picked her up in his white Honda and they went to the Golden Lake restaurant and sat in a corner booth after 4 p.m.When she went to the bathroom after eating, she said she noticed more people at tables and one dark male wearing black and red was “staring at me,” as she walked back to her booth.As they were leaving the restaurant, Sok, a man she knew as Tony and the dark male with a ‘do rag, followed them outside.Once outside, Sok asked Vargas-Martinez if he was a “Cuz,” which she said is another way of asking if he was a Crip.”He said why,” and then they tried to “jump him, but I was covering him” as they tried to hit him with their fists, Choeun told the jury.”I told him to get in the car,” but he went back inside the restaurant, she said.When she went back into the restaurant for a second time to get Vargas-Martinez, “Tony had him in a bear hug while Sok was hitting him in the face.””Let him go,” I kept insisting, eventually they did and we left, Choeun testified.The group followed them outside as a verbal altercation continued, she said.Then she said there was a “big ring in my ear,” and Cristian said he had been shot.”He touched his stomach and slowly went to the ground,” Choeun explained.She went over to him, lifted his shirt and saw a bullet wound in his abdomen, then ran back into the r