Victim Still Feels Pain Of Bullet

Martin Nunez still feels pain where the bullet pierced his chest seven months ago.

“As I got out of my van, Urbano shot me,” the 33-year-old Coeur d’Alene man told a judge Monday. “I saw the flames come out of that pistol.”

On Monday, Judge Eugene Marano ordered Urbano Brito Herrera to stand trial for attempting to murder Nunez.

On April 4, Nunez and Herrera got into a fight at Beta’s Place Tavern on Sherman Avenue.

Nunez testified Monday that after the fight, he left the bar and walked to his van a block away. He got into his van but then got out after noticing his headlights weren’t working.

That’s when he noticed Herrera pointing a gun at him. Nunez heard three shots and felt pain.

The bullet pierced the left side of his chest, came out the other side and lodged in his right arm.

Nunez took cover inside his van where he waited five minutes.

He then stumbled to a neigh bor’s house to call for help.

Nunez spent two months in the hospital, he told the judge during Herrera’s preliminary hearing Monday. Police did not catch Herrera until six months later.

He is currently being held in the Kootenai County Jail. He will enter his plea Nov. 17.

, DataTimes