LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person prohibited from proudly owning a gun who fired into an house wall, killing a boy and injuring his brother, will serve at the very least six years in jail, a decide dominated Tuesday.
On March 7, 2023, Eliazar Quintero, 43, fired a rifle, killing Sir’Armani Clark, 9. Police later linked Quintero to the taking pictures as he was serving a jail sentence on drug and gun costs.
The taking pictures occurred in an house on the 5300 block of Boulder Freeway, south of Harmon Avenue. A stray bullet Quintero fired went by the wall into the neighboring house and struck Sir’Armani within the head, killing him. His older brother was additionally hit however didn’t undergo life-threatening accidents, police mentioned.
Quintero’s pal instructed police she was within the house when Quintero “got up and went into his bedroom for several minutes,” paperwork mentioned. He then returned with the rifle in hand, “shouldered it, pointing it at the south wall and said, ‘Say hello to my little friend,’” as he fired it.
On Tuesday, Clark County District Court docket Decide Jacqueline Bluth ordered Eliazar Quintero, 43, to serve a most of 15 years in jail, a court docket spokesperson mentioned. Quintero can be eligible for parole after serving six years.
In June, Quintero pleaded responsible to costs together with involuntary manslaughter, information mentioned. He didn’t comply with a particular sentence earlier than Bluth sentenced him on Tuesday.
Quintero was prohibited from proudly owning a gun on the time of the 2023 taking pictures.
In response to court docket information, Quintero was alleged to be sentenced on a cost of possession or possession of a firearm by a prohibited individual on March 8, 2023, a day after the taking pictures, however failed to indicate up in court docket. On March 9, two days after the taking pictures, police took Quintero into custody on the warrant for skipping court docket, paperwork mentioned. It was not till October that police introduced Quintero’s connection to Clark’s dying.
Quintero was already serving a 2-to-5-year sentence on a previous cost. The sentence for Clark’s dying will start after his sentence is his different circumstances expires, Bluth ordered.
