NEVADA Published March 3, 2022 4:03am EST
Salvadoran gets life in prison for killing elderly Nevada couple with gun he stole from them: authorities
The plea deal came as Guzman had another sentencing hearing scheduled for Thursday for the murders of two other victims
By Lawrence Richard | Fox News
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A Salvadoran migrant has been sentenced in the U.S. to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of fatally shooting two people last year, court documents show.
Wilber Ernesto Martinez Guzman, 23, was sentenced Monday after he admitted to killing an elderly couple living in Nevada in 2019, as part of a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, The Associated
Prosecutors initiated a plea deal after family members of the victims, who were well-known in their community, said they did not wish for the case to be dragged out, officials said.
"I’m happy that he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison and I hope that he spends all of that time thinking about what these family members told him today," Washoe County District Attorney Chris Hicks said after Judge Connie Steinheimer sentenced Guzman, the AP reported.
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