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Marine’s family will get proceeds of liquor license sale from bar where he was stabbed
Although it’s unclear how much the liquor license proceeds will be, it’s common for the licenses in Boston to be hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A liquor license sale was approved Thursday for the former owners of a closed bar where a former Marine was fatally stabbed, and the proceeds are going to the victim’s family, according to The Boston Globe.
The Boston Licensing Board approved the sale of the license to the former owners of Loyal Nine, a closed bar on Union Street downtown.
The bar was called Sons of Boston in March 2022, at the time when 23-year-old Daniel Martinez was fatally stabbed following an altercation with a bouncer.
“It’s my understanding the proceeds from this sale are going to the victim’s family?” Asked Chair Kathleen Joyce during Wednesday’s hearing, according to video recordings.
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“That is correct,” said Adam R. Barnosky, a lawyer for the landlord. He went on to say that the landlord is in an agreement with the estate of Daniel Martinez and Causeway Union, a company formed by the former bar owners.
The Martinez estate
“And while the primary focus of that agreement relates to the settlement between the estate and the restaurant, our client … has agreed that all the proceeds, or the net proceeds of that sale, will go to the estate as part of that settlement,” Barnosky told the Globe.
Although it’s unclear how much the liquor license proceeds will be, it’s common for the licenses in Boston to be hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Martinez, a Chicago-area native, was vacationing in Boston and stopped by Sons of Boston with a friend on the day of the stabbing, according to officials. Alvaro Larrama, the bouncer, refused to let Martinez and his friend in when they attempted to return inside the crowded bar after leaving for a while, police said.
Martinez and his friend walked away, but Larrama called for another bouncer to take his place and followed them down the street, according to officials.
When he approached the pair, Martinez raised his arm as if to block a blow, according to police. Martinez hit Larrama with an aluminum beer bottle and a fight began, which ended when Larrama took out a knife and stabbed Martinez twice in the chest, according to officials.
Larrama pleaded guilty to manslaughter in April and received a state prison sentence of 17 to 20 years.
The bar was closed for about a year after the stabbing and reopened in April 2023 under the name “Loyal Nine.”
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