SALEM – Jury selection is creeping along in the murder trial of a Lynn man accused of a shoot-out with rival gang members on Olive Street in 2008 that ended with one man being shot and killed.On the first day of trial, two females and six males have been picked to decide the fate of Jose Cabrera, 20, formerly of 76 Park St., Lynn, who is on trial for the pre-meditated shooting death of Tony Pich.Jury selection will continue this morning until a total of 16 people have been picked to sit on the expected three-week trial in Salem Superior Court with Judge David A. Lowy presiding.Pich, 21, a member of the Crips gang, was fatally shot once in the chest on his front porch at 1-3 Olive St. shortly before 2:30 a.m. on the morning after Halloween during an apparent retaliation between rival gangs the Crips and the Deuce Boyz from an earlier incident at a 7-Eleven store in Lynn.Pich was shot and killed with a bullet from a .9mm revolver.Pich reportedly fired gunshots back at Cabrera’s car, identified as a silver vehicle by witnesses, as it went down Fayette Street, which faces Olive Street.The vehicle, a silver Kia, which authorities believe was the same vehicle that the gunshots were fired from that killed Pich, was found two days later on Estes Street with a parking ticket on the windshield and a bullet hole in the trunk.At the time of the incident, authorities identified Olive Street as a Crip’s gang hangout.Assistant District Attorney Kristen R. Buxton has listed 51 potential government witnesses to testify during her case.Cabrera, who was 18 at the time of the shooting, has pleaded innocent. He faces a life sentence in state prison, with no chance of ever being paroled, if convicted as charged.
