Two young men who used a Snapchat app to try and sell a ghost gun were ordered on Feb. 2 to stand trial for the murder of a man who was killed in a Point Loma grocery parking lot in 2020.

The preliminary hearing for Angel Garcia, 19, and Armando Silvestre Alvarado, 20, lasted about four days involving the death of Eduardo Salguero, 18, who was shot to death on Nov. 25, 2020.

San Diego Superior Court Judge Jay Bloom also ruled the men committed the crime in association with a criminal street gang. He also ordered them to next appear in court on Feb. 17 to set a trial date.

Coincidentally, the ghost gun the pair were trying to sell on Garcia’s Snapchat account ended up being the murder weapon, said Deputy District Attorney Miriam Hemming.

The weapon was recovered by police, but there is “no idea where it came from,” said Hemming because there are no serial numbers anywhere on the gun. It is possible the gun was stolen.

The Snapchat message advertising the semi automatic firearm was sent on Alvarado’s phone, said Hemming.

They were also ordered to stand trial for attempted murder, and assault with a deadly weapon of someone who was with Salguero at the time. At least one shot was fired at Salguero’s friend, but it missed. It is also alleged to have benefited a criminal street gang.

Additionally, they were held to answer for shooting at an occupied building, and two counts of robbery. Garcia is also accused of committing another hold-up by himself.

Salguero was shot several times in a gray Acura around 6 p.m. behind the Vons supermarket at 3645 Midway Drive. Multiple people in the shopping center called 911 to report the Acura crashing into the retaining wall.

Most of the testimony came from detectives and other San Diego Police officers. Salguero lived in San Diego. Garcia lived in San Diego and Alvarado was arrested in Lemon Grove.

Garcia and Alvarado have pleaded not guilty to all charges. Garcia and Alvarado remain in jail on $3 million and $2 million bail respectively.