Her family told her to never forget the face and the name on the “Wanted” posters. She didn’t. Joselyn Martinez tells her story.
Joselyn Martinez, 36, is an actress and recording artist who was 9 years old in 1986, when her father, José, was murdered by a New York City teenager.
Via: Joselyn Martinez
"My father and mother owned a restaurant called Dominican Express, it was very popular," Martinez told BuzzFeed. "They were immigrants who started from the bottom and paid their dues. It was the best moment of their lives.
Via: Joselyn Martinez
Everything changed on Saturday, Nov. 22, 1986. Teenagers came to the restaurant and were harassing Martinez's mother Idalia, making sexual remarks to her. "My father ended up with them outside and a shot was fired," Martinez says. Her mom rushed her father to the hospital in a taxi but it was too late. He died in the hospital.
The suspect Justo Santos fled to the Dominican Republic and the case went cold.
