More jurors selected in Lynn murder trial

SALEM – Jury selection will continue today in Salem Superior Court in the trial of Jose Cabrera of Lynn, charged with shooting and killing a rival gang member on Olive Street in 2008.On the second day of jury selection, 12 jurors, comprised of four women and eight men, were picked.Jury selection will continue today until a 16-person jury panel has been selected.A female juror from Lynn selected Tuesday to sit on the trial was excused Wednesday morning after she appeared and told Judge David A. Lowy, who is presiding over the trial, that she was “scared” to remain as a juror on the trial because her home is close to where the killing occurred.”I don’t like to live in fear,” she told Lowy as he agreed to excuse her from the trial.Opening statements in the case will begin on Monday morning. Jurors are expected to view the murder scene sometime next week at 1-3 Olive St. They also will view a second site located at a 7-Eleven Store at the corner of Essex and Fayette streets in Lynn.Cabrera, 20, formerly of 76 Park St., Lynn, is on trial for the pre-meditated shooting death of 21-year-old Tony Pich.Pich, a member of the Crips gang, was shot and killed on his front porch at 1-3 Olive St. shortly before 2:30 a.m. on the morning after Halloween in 2008 during an apparent retaliation incident between rival gangs, the Crips and the Deuce Boyz, from an earlier incident at the 7-Eleven Store.Pich, who was shot and killed with a bullet from a 9mm revolver, had fired gunshots back at Cabrera’s car, identified by witnesses as a silver vehicle, as it went down Fayette Street, which faces Olive Street.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 on the first-degree murder charge. He remains held at the Middleton Jail without bail.