EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally comes from the Los Angeles Times and can be read in full on its website.
A San Diego County man has been charged with murder after a confrontation in Fallbrook that left one landscaper dead and another hospitalized, according to authorities and NBC News.
Michael Anthony Burke, 70, of Fallbrook was arrested Monday after allegedly firing his shotgun into a vehicle and killing Martin Lucas Esteban, an immigrant from Guatemala who was working on a nearby property, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.
The shooting occurred around 8 p.m. Monday on East Mission Road in Fallbrook, about 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Authorities responded to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon and found two men suffering from gunshot wounds. Esteban was pronounced dead at the scene.
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