New charges against accused killer of 4 in Nevada in 2019

RENO — Douglas County’s territory lawyer filed a transgression ailment Monday accusing a Salvadoran migrant of sidesplitting 2 women successful Gardnerville aft the Nevada Supreme Court ruled helium can’t beryllium tried for those crimes simultaneously successful Washoe County, wherever helium is accused of fatally shooting a Reno mates days aboriginal successful 2019.

The precocious tribunal ruled past period Wilber Ernesto Martinez Guzman indispensable beryllium tried successful the counties wherever the slayings took place. The tribunal ordered a justice successful neighboring Washoe County justice to disregard the charges related to Douglas County due to the fact that the expansive assemblage successful Reno lacked due jurisdiction to indict him for those crimes.

Douglas County District Attorney Mark Jackson initiated the caller process with a ailment filed successful East Fork Justice Court successful Minden southbound of Carson City charging Martinez Guzman with the deaths of Connie Koontz and Sophia Renken.

Prosecutors accidental helium stole a .22 caliber revolver from Gerald and Sharon David’s Reno location connected Jan. 4, 2019. They accidental helium burglarized and killed Koontz 5 days later, past did the aforesaid to Renken the adjacent week earlier burglarizing and sidesplitting the Davids connected Jan. 15.

The proceedings successful Reno had been scheduled to statesman aboriginal adjacent year. Martinez Guzman was successful the state illegally and had worked arsenic a landscaper astatine each 3 properties wherever the 4 were killed implicit a two-week period, constabulary said. They said helium confessed to the shootings.