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Immigrant sentenced to life without parole in Nevada murders

Nevada Killings Immigrant
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FILE - In this May 20, 2019, file photo, Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman from El Salvador appears in Washoe District Court in Reno, Nev. Lawyers for the 21-year-old Salvadoran immigrant accused of killing four northern Nevada residents last year are asking the state Supreme Court to again overturn a judge's ruling allowing him to be tried in Reno for crimes that occurred in another county. Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman's public defenders argue the Washoe County District Court lacks jurisdiction to try him for the two killings and burglaries he's accused of committing in rural Douglas County last year. (Andy Barron/Reno Gazette-Journal/Pool via AP, File)
Nevada Killings Immigrant
Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Salvadoran immigrant has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for the murders of two of the four northern Nevadans he admitted killing in a plea deal that spared him from a death penalty trial.

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

He is 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.

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