Osiris Quintero Munoz appeared in court this afternoon on charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the fatal downtown stabbing at Rio Nilo March 16, but the judge delayed the hearing four weeks while the coroner finishes the autopsy report.
Munoz is expected to enter a plea June 3 at 1:30 p.m. at the San Martin Superior Courthouse. His new public defender, Enrique Colin, asked the judge for the postponement to have time to gather information from the coroner and other relevant material; Deputy District Attorney Valerie McGuire agreed on behalf of the people.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney has charged Munoz with murder, assault with a deadly weapon and violating the conditions of his probation. Munoz was found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon by the same court in September 2006.
Gilroy police arrested Munoz, 26, the evening of March 25 in Gilroy for violating the conditions of his probation. The arrest was a result of a tip that led undercover GPD officers to a migrant camp near Anderson Reservoir in unincorporated Morgan Hill, where Munoz's former employer lives.
That's where police located the convertible that matched witnesses descriptions from the crime scene. Using DMV records, police matched the car to Munoz and then arrested him at his crowded Gilroy apartment for illegally possessing a single .380 round. They also recovered clothing and a towel that "appeared to have blood stains" and a 4-inch knife, according to court files and a statement of facts compiled by GPD Detective Stanley Devlin.
In the affidavit, Munoz told police that security guards removed him and a friend from Rio Nilo, 7474 Monterey St., because his friend was fighting with the two others: Juan DeDios Arvizu Cabrera, 26, of Castroville - who eventually died outside the bar from multiple stab wounds - and Adan Arvizu Cabrera, 23, of Salinas, who suffered non-life threatening knife wounds, police said.
Chris Bone Chris Bone covers Gilroy government for South Valley Newspapers. Reach him at 847-7109 or e-mail him.
