DA: Salvadoran to plead guilty to 4 Nevada killings from 2019

RENO — A 22-year-old Salvadoran migrant who was facing 2 decease punishment trials successful the killings of 4 radical successful bluish Nevada volition plead blameworthy Thursday successful an statement that volition enactment him successful situation for the remainder of his life, a authoritative said.

Wilber Ernesto Martinez Guzman is owed successful a Reno courtroom to admit sidesplitting a Reno mates and 2 women successful Gardnerville during a two-week agelong successful January 2019, Washoe County District Attorney Chris Hicks said.

The plea woody volition afloat resoluteness murder, burglary and limb cases successful Washoe and Douglas counties with what Hicks said volition beryllium “a afloat and implicit admittance of guilt connected the portion of the defendant” and “maximum sentences” that volition tally consecutively.

Hicks and Douglas County District Attorney Mark Jackson had planned a death-penalty trial, but the Nevada Supreme Court Sept. 30 that Martinez Guzman would person to beryllium tried separately successful their 2 jurisdictions.

Prosecutors accidental Martinez Guzman stole a handgun from Gerald and Sharon David successful southwest Reno successful aboriginal January 2019, changeable and killed Constance Koontz and Sophia Renken successful Gardnerville respective days later, and returned to the Davids’ location to rob and termination them.

Police accidental Martinez Guzman told them helium committed the crimes due to the fact that helium needed wealth to bargain methamphetamine.

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