Police detective: Video shows suspect near scene of deadly Lynn shooting

SALEM – A Lynn police detective said store videos taken from the 7-Eleven at the corner of Fayette and Essex streets show murder suspect Jose Cabrera, 20, near the time Tony Pich was shot and killed on Halloween night 2008.Lynn Police Detective Stephen Withrow testified that police believe the shot that killed Pich was fired from an auto parts store across the street from the 7-Eleven.State Trooper Joshua Ulrich testified that he had interviewed Daniel Maffei, who drove Pich from his Olive Street home to Salem Hospital the night he was killed, but that he could not say who shot Pich.”He (Maffei) said he had been on the porch. He heard gunshots. He didn’t know where they had come from. Everyone ran inside. Tony fell on the floor. We carried him to my car and drove him to the hospital as fast as I could,” testified Ulrich.Ulrich also said that Maffei had said he was a member of the Crips.Ulrich described two vehicles seized by police, a red GEO that had a bullet hole in the rear and a Kia, which police say belonged to Cabrera.Lynn Police Officer David Spelta, who responded to the 7-Eleven, also took the stand to say when he arrived at the store there were about 10 to 15 people outside, but they were dispersing. He spent about 40 minutes there.Then he went to 1-3 Olive St. to respond to the report of a fatal shooting.He described the bullet he observed in a house across the street and a vehicle that had bullet holes.Cabrera, who was age 18 at the time of the incident, maintains he is innocent and that police have charged the wrong person in connection with the death of Pich in what police say was a gang-related murder.Pich was shot in the chest from a single bullet outside his home at 1-3 Olive St., at around 2:15 a.m. on Nov. 1, 2008.The trial is expected to continue today in Salem Superior Court with Judge David A. Lowy presiding.Jurors are expected to view the 7-Eleven store and 1-3 Olive St. sometime this week.