SOB bouncer admits he killed Chicago visitor outside his bar, gets 17 to 20 years

Alvaro Larrama, a bouncer at the Sons of Boston bar on Union Street, pleaded guilty today to manslaughter for the March, 2022 stabbing death of Daniel Martinez, a Marine veteran from Chicago in town to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Suffolk Superior Court Judge Josh Wall sentenced Larrama to 17-20 years in state prison.

In his plea, Larrama, 40 and an East Boston resident, admitted that he fatally stabbed Martinez in the chest. Prosecutors had earlier said that the stabbing came after Martinez and friends were turned away at the bar's door and they and Larrama got into a heated argument that turned physical.

Prosecutors say Larrama fled inside the bar, where another worker helped him change and hide his bloody clothes and run out the back to evade cops swarming the scene. That worker - also a part-owner of the bar - pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact last November; she got three months on probation.

In the aftermath of the stabbing, the Boston Licensing Board ordered Sons of Boston shut as a public-safety menace. The board cited other incidents, including one a few months earlier, in which another "very angry" bouncer began threatening to fight passersby and when the police arrived and another bouncer tried to get him to stop, he shoved that man into a wall and began yelling "fuck the police!"

But the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission overturned the suspension, ruling police officers who testified at a board hearing had given impermissible hearsay evidence by reading from reports written by other officers rather than having the officers directly involved testify.

In April, 2023, the licensing board approved plans by the bar's owners to re-open under a new name.