SAN DIEGO – A county grand jury has indicted an Old Town man for murder in the death of another man at a Hillcrest service station after two separate judges dismissed the case against him.
A grand jury is not often used as a vehicle for refiling charges, but prosecutors questioned witnesses in the closed forum, and they issued the indictment.
Deputy District Attorney Melanie Guillen confirmed on Wednesday that Solomon A. Guerrero once again faces a murder charge in the 2025 beating and strangulation of Jerry Puerile, 61, of Clairemont.
Guerrero, 57, is accused in the March 1, 2025 death of Puerile, who had been strangled and hit his head on the ground at the Shell service station at 330 Washington St. in Hillcrest.
The incident occurred at 4:54 p.m. Police officers found Puerile unconscious and he was rushed to a hospital, where he died. Guerrero was later arrested on West Washington Street.
Guerrero had a preliminary hearing before Judge Laura Parsky on Oct. 23, 2025, and Parsky declined to order him to stand trial for murder. She did order Guerrero to trial on other charges of making a terroristic threat to a 35-year-old man and failure to register as a sex offender.
The prosecutor then refiled the murder charge against Guerrero, but another judge dismissed it.
Guerrero was never released from jail, where he was being held without bail on the other charges, and he was sentenced on Tuesday to a year in jail after pleading guilty. The criminal threat charge was reduced to a misdemeanor over the prosecutor’s objection.
The court did hear questions about the victim’s health. A medical witness at the hearing before Parsky said Puerile suffered from an 85% blockage of some arteries to his heart, which was enlarged, and also had a high level of methamphetamine in his system.
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