Trial in shooting death scheduled for Monday

PORTALES — A murder trial for the shooting death last year of a Portales woman is scheduled to start Monday and last all week.

Gerardo Marquez, 35, of Portales, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted on the second-degree murder charge for the April 2018 death of Erika Zamorano, according to prosecutor Jake Boazman.

Marquez was indicted in June 2018 and remains in custody without bond.

Marquez’s attorney Dan Lindsey said the trial was on track to start Monday directly after jury selection, following a status hearing Friday morning in the court of Judge Donna Mowrer.

Zamorano was found dead April 19, 2018, inside a residence on the 900 block of East Second Street, and state police detained Marquez the following day in Clovis.