Oh no… Marty York is the big screen little brother or longtime crush of a LOT of ’90s kids. As a kid, the actor played Yeah Yeah in the beloved 1993 classic The Sandlot — and when the 25-year anniversary stuff came around a few years back he stood out as having, well, filled out nicely as they say.
We adore Marty. So we’re devastated this is the story we’re writing about the former child star. In a shocking report on TMZ, it was revealed Marty’s mother has been murdered. Deanna Esmaeel was killed in her own home — apparently by a man she had been seeing.
The Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office, where Deanna worked as a sheriff’s deputy, put out an alert Friday in hopes of tracking down Daniel James Walter, also known as Edward Patrick Davies.
Walter (or Davies) was Deanna’s boyfriend and is the prime suspect in the murder. Related: Accused Murderer Kaitlin Armstrong Escaped Custody AGAIN! Marty confirmed all this in an emotional Instagram post on Friday afternoon.
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