Illegal immigrant slapped with 4 life sentences for brutal murders

The Bobster

Senior News Editor since 2004

Illegal immigrant slapped with 4 life sentences for brutal murders​



By
Mark Lungariello


March 4, 2022 1:02pm
Updated





Ernesto Martinez-Guzman
Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, received two consecutive life sentences after admitting to committing four murders. Andy Barron




More On: murders






In a deal to avoid facing the death penalty, a Salvadoran serial killer who was in the US illegally was slapped with consecutive life sentences after he admitted to four Nevada murders.
Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, 23, worked as a landscaper for all four victims before he shot them during a deadly robbery spree in January 2019 — but prosecutors said his crimes weren’t motivated by a need for money.
He copped a plea, tying himself to the murders.
The killer was feeding his own sinister desires and made only $179 from the stolen items he pawned, Douglas County District Attorney Mark Jackson said at a sentencing hearing Thursday.
“This case is about him getting a thrill out of committing burglaries and killing,” Jackson said, according to the Reno Gazette Journal.
Martinez-Guzman was sentenced separately in the killings on Monday and Thursday and faces additional sentencing on burglary charges on Friday.
Wilber Ernesto Martinez-GuzmanErnesto Martinez-Guzman admitted to the murders to avoid facing the death penalty. Scott Sonner
The case gained political attention when then-President Donald Trump cited it as a reason why the US needed to build a wall along its southern border. A daughter and granddaughter of an elderly couple killed by Martinez-Guzman attended Trump’s 2019 State of the Union address.
Illegal border crossings have continued to soar in the US, with a reported 220,000 migrants allegedly having evaded patrols between October and February, a recent report said.
Martinez-Guzman shot Jerry David, 81, and his wife, Sherri David, 80, using a .22-caliber gun he had stolen from David’s barn days earlier, and then pawned a ring and other items from the couple, who were well known in the local rodeo community. It was the Davids’ daughter and granddaughter who were Trump’s guests at his speech.
Ernesto Martinez GuzmanErnesto Martinez-Guzman worked as a landscaper for all four victims before robbing and killing them.Andy Barron Sherri DavidSherri David was one of Ernesto Martinez-Guzman’s victims. AP
During Martinez-Guzman’s rampage, he also killed Constance Koontz, 56, and Sophia Renken, 74, in Douglas County. Koontz’s daughter, Madison Koontz-Winkelman, called her mother’s killer a “heartless monster” during a heart-wrenching statement in court, the Gazette reported.
The killer stole personal items with little value, including a concert ticket stub, the daughter said. He later hocked 33 pieces of her mother’s jewelry for $1 each. A stolen Apple watch belonging to Koontz led police to the man, who had come to the US from El Salvador at 16 years old, the Gazette said.
“I will never forgive you. I hate you,” Koontz-Winkelman told Martinez-Guzman.
 
mexican.jpg
BLOOD IS ON THE HANDS OF 'NO-BORDERS BIDEN and his anti-American, anti-White far left one-mud-world mob

ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN SALVADORAN BEANER-WETBACK HISPANIC INVADER KILLER
sentenced to life without parole in Nevada murders

?Hell Fire
WilberErnestoMartinezGuzman.jpg
?Hell Fire
5x150-spacer.jpg
ConnieKoontz.jpg
GeraldDavid.jpg
SharonDavid.jpg
SophiaRenken.jpg
RENO, Nev. — A Salvadoran immigrant has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for the murders of two of the four Nevada residents he admitted killing in a plea deal that spared him from a death penalty trial.

A Washoe County district judge sentenced Wilber Ernesto Martinez Guzman, 23, on Monday for the fatal shootings of an elderly Reno couple during a two-week crime rampage in January 2019.

He’s scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in Douglas County for the killings of two Gardnerville women and on Friday in Carson City on charges related to property he stole from his victims and sold at a pawn shop there.

Martinez Guzman, who authorities say entered the U.S. illegally at age 16, pleaded guilty to all the crimes last year after prosecutors announced they had agreed to a plea-bargain agreement in October.

Martinez Guzman had worked as a landscaper for all four victims — Jerry David, 81, and his wife, Sherri David, 80, in Reno; and Constance Koontz, 56, and Sophia Renken, 74, who lived in rural Douglas County.

In addition to four life terms without parole, he faces more than 200 years in prison for multiple burglary, larceny, weapons and stolen property charges.

The case drew attention at the time from then-President Donald Trump, who said it showed the need to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. He invited the Davids’ daughter and great-granddaughter to attend his State of the Union address as his guests in February 2019.

Washoe County District Attorney Chris Hicks said the decision to drop pursuit of the death penalty last fall came as a result of a direct appeal from families of the victims who didn’t want the case to continue for years longer. “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,” Hicks told the Reno Gazette Journal after Judge Connie Steinheimer sentenced him Monday in Reno.

The judge heard testimony from family of the Davids, who were well known in the Reno Rodeo community. Both served on the rodeo association board and Jerry was a past president.

One of his rodeo belt buckles that Martinez Guzman sold at the Carson City pawn shop provided a key clue in the early stages of the investigation of the string of killings that had the community on edge for weeks.

Kari Powning, the Davids’ granddaughter, said she still becomes distraught whenever she sees a Reno Rodeo license plate. “It is humanly impossible to suffer a tragedy of this magnitude and ever by the same,” Powning testified.

Prosecutors announced they would seek the death penalty shortly after Martinez Guzman was arrested on Jan. 19, 2019, and a Washoe County grand jury indicted him on four murder counts. Last May, the Nevada Supreme Court ordered a Washoe County judge to dismiss the charges related to Douglas County because the grand jury in Reno lacked proper jurisdiction to indict him for those crimes. Still pending at the time of the plea deal in October was a defense motion to declare Martinez Guzman ineligible for the death penalty based on his limited mental capacity.

Martinez Guzman shot all victims with a .22 caliber revolver he stole from the Davids’ barn on their ranch property in southwest Reno days earlier, prosecutors said. Steve David, their son, said his father told him someone had broken into their barn several times and that he suspected the thief was a landscaper he’d fired in July 2018.
<----<⭐︎>---->
The case drew attention at the time from then-President Donald Trump, who said it showed the need to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. He invited the Davids’ daughter and great-granddaughter to attend his State of the Union address as his guests in February 2019.
<----<⭐︎>---->

Are there any images of the elderly American Citizens that were the VICTIMS of this cowardly demonic (HORROR-film) creature
that does not deserve being rewarded with FREE ROOM AND BOARD AND MUCH MORE at American Taxpayer expense for the rest of his less than worthless life as a dealy foreign parasite - not fit to polute the air we share .....

'No one will remember you': Martinez-Guzman sentenced to life without parole for Reno murders


19yo Guatemalan illegal serial killer murders four white residents of Reno, NV a week ago...
(story is at the bottom of the forum-thread-page: enter CONTROL + DOWN-ARROW)
Remembering the victims: Connie Koontzz

The first killing took place January 9 or 10, 2019. 56-year-old Connie Koontz was found shot to death at her home in the Gardnerville Ranchos. She was found dead by her mother, who also lives in the home and is hard of hearing and disabled.

January 13, 74-year-old Sophia Renken was found dead in her home about a mile away, also shot to death.

January 16, the bodies of 81-year-old Gerald David, a former Reno Rodeo President,

and his wife, 80-year-old Sharon David, were found dead in their home on La Guardia Lane in south Reno, near Zolezzi. They also had been shot to death.
<----<⭐︎>---->
Murder charges expected against suspect in killings


Hotline still active for tips about murders of Gardnerville women - Jan. 13, 2019


In Memory Of Connie Koontz


Suspect in four Northern Nevada murders arrested
 
Back
Top