Security guard arrested with severed hand in his pocket, charged with murder
PUEBLO, Colo. January 18th, 2024 Authorities in Colorado have charged a security guard with first-degree murder.
Court documents show that when Solomon Martinez, 26, was arrested last week, police found a severed hand in his pocket.
On Jan. 10, police in Pueblo, Colorado, found a woman dead at Fountain Creek.
The woman’s head had been cut off, according to court documents.
Authorities quickly zeroed in on Martinez.
He told detectives that he hired the woman as a prostitute the night before, according to court records.
Arrest records said that before disposing of her body, Martinez sought the help of his roommate, Joshua Mazzurco.
“He had walked up to me and he had asked me, you know, ‘You want to absolve $1,000 off your debt? I need a ten-foot hole.’ And he looks at me, goes, ‘I’m not playing around,’” Mazzurco said.
Mazzurco said he refused to help Martinez, but police records say he watched Martinez wash the woman’s blood off of his hands at a car wash.
“I was terrified. I was beyond terrified. Like, I can’t even put into words how physically scared I was,” Mazzurco said.
Martinez was employed by former Pueblo County Sheriff Dan Corsentino’s security guard company.
Corsentino said Martinez had zero criminal history and passed all background checks before being hired in late December, just two weeks before police arrested him on a murder charge.
