Alameda County District Attorney's Office: PEOPLE V MARVEL SALVANT AND MARIA MOORE

Press release from the Alameda County District Attorney's Office:

Feb 9, 2022

On February 7, 2022 a jury found defendant Marvel Salvant and Maria Moore guilty of the first-degree murder with special circumstances of Dominic Sarkar in a murder-for-hire plot.

The jury also found the allegation true that defendant Salvant had personally and intentionally discharged a firearm.

In the early morning of October 8, 2018, Mr. Sarkar was found shot to death while sleeping in his bedroom inside his residence in Fremont. Defendant Moore conspired with Defendant Salvant to murder Mr. Sarkar in order to collect $800,000 in life insurance benefits on his life.

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