A jury in Key West found 34-year-old Mayque Gomez Marin guilty of manslaughter for killing a fisherman and father of three at a Stock Island marina three years ago.
Jurors also found Gomez Marin guilty as charged of attempted second-degree murder for leaving Iliecer “Amarillo” Noa with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The injuries led to doctors amputating Noa’s legs below the knees and one arm just above the elbow.
Gomez Marin and his brother, Jose Luis Espinosa Gomez, 37, were charged with murdering Jose Manuel Clemente, Jr., 45, on June 15, 2020, at Safe Harbor Marina.
But after a trial at the Monroe County Courthouse in Key West, a jury came back with a lesser verdict of manslaughter, rather than second-degree murder, for Gomez Marin.
Sentencing is set for Oct. 10 before Monroe County Judge Mark Wilson.
His brother remains locked up at the county jail on Stock Island and awaiting trial.
Clemente’s murder was a “targeted hit” ordered after the overdue return of a Mercedes-Benz, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
At about 5 p.m. that day, Clemente had finished a day of work on a fishing boat docked at Safe Harbor marina. He was drinking vodka and talking with other fishermen, including Noa, according to the Haggard Law Firm lawyers that later represented Clemente’s family in a civil lawsuit against the marina property owners.
Two men approached the group and asked where they could find another fisherman. When Noa said he didn’t know, an argument broke out. Gunshots followed.
Clemente was found facedown on the ground bleeding from his chest in an area known as “La Curva” off Fifth Avenue on Stock Island.
Noa, 44 at the time, was airlifted to a Miami-Dade hospital.
Marin Gomez and Espinosa Gomez, both originally from Cuba, fled the country after the shooting.
Marin Gomez was arrested in December 2020 after authorities tracked him down in northern Mexico after a months-long search, four months after his brother was taken into custody – also in Mexico.
Attorneys for the victims’ families went after the owners and operators of the property where the shooting took place and secured a $6 million settlement in January 2022.
The Haggard Law Firm, of Coral Gables, were seeking to make a case over negligent security, wrongful death and personal injury claims.
Lawyers said the property’s owner, the Bernstein Trust, and the trust’s longtime tenant Fishbusterz, agreed to tap their insurance to their limits to avoid a potential lawsuit and possible trial.
