{"id":30000,"date":"2013-01-30T16:30:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T00:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=30000"},"modified":"2013-02-22T14:19:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T22:19:03","slug":"man-charged-bail-raised-in-smoke-shack-shooting-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/01\/30\/man-charged-bail-raised-in-smoke-shack-shooting-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged, bail raised in Smoke Shack shooting death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reyna Gutierrez, 23, was shot in the chest on Jan. 27 inside the Smoke Shack, located at 137 East Avenue J in Lancaster. Samy Mahmoud has been charged with murder in connection with the incident.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LANCASTER \u2013 A man who told deputies he accidentally shot a woman to death inside a Lancaster smoke shop this past weekend has been charged with murder.<\/p>\n

Samy Ali Mahmoud<\/strong> was charged with one count of murder Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Mahmoud appeared in an Antelope Valley courtroom, but did not enter a plea. His arraignment was postponed and his bail was raised to $2 million, according to the district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Mahmoud had been jailed on $1 million bail since Monday morning, when he was arrested in connection with the shooting death of 23-year-old Reyna Araceli Gutierrez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Mahmoud claims the shotgun accidentally discharged, striking Gutierrez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gutierrez was shot in the chest with a shotgun on Sunday, Jan. 27 inside the Smoke Shack, at 137 East Avenue J in Lancaster, sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n

Gutierrez had been in a back room cleaning around 4 p.m. when Mahmoud, who worked at the store, came into the room and began handling the store owner\u2019s shotgun, according to Sheriff\u2019s Homicide Lt. Eddie Hernandez.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was saying that the shotgun fell and discharged, striking the female in the chest,\u201d Hernandez said previously.<\/p>\n

Gutierrez was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. Several employees and customers were in the store at the time of the incident, officials said.<\/p>\n

There were surveillance cameras inside the store, but the cameras did not capture the incident, according to media reports.<\/p>\n

Detectives questioned Mahmoud for several hours, before he was arrested around 2:10 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n

Mahmoud is due back in court on Thursday, February 14 for arraignment, according to the district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/span>: Samy Mahmoud appeared in court on Feb. 14, but did not enter a plea. Instead his arraignment was postponed until Thursday, March 7, 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Related articles:<\/p>\n

Suspect arrested in Smoke Shack shooting death<\/a><\/p>\n

BREAKING NEWS: Woman shot to death in Lancaster<\/a><\/p>\n

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LANCASTER \u2013 A man who told deputies he accidentally shot a woman to death inside a Lancaster smoke shop this past weekend has been charged with murder. Samy Ali Mahmoud was charged with one count of murder Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney\u2019s Office. Mahmoud appeared in an Antelope Valley courtroom, but did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}