SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) -- Attorneys delivered opening statements on Tuesday for the trial of Kaleb Charters, one of four men charged with murdering a Santa Cruz tech executive in 2019.

The victim, Tushar Atre, was a millionaire executive who founded a successful tech company, AtreNet. He previously lived in San Francisco, but he moved to an oceanfront house at Pleasure Point in Santa Cruz because he loved surfing and mountain biking. Atre, 50, was also a cannabis entrepreneur who owned a marijuana farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Two of Charters' co-defendants, Stephen Lindsay and Kurtis Charters, were already convicted of murder during separate trials held earlier this year in Santa Cruz County Superior Court. A trial for Charters' third co-defendant, Joshua Camps, is underway.

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