LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person agreed to serve at the least 40 years in jail for killing two individuals at a homeless encampment, data mentioned.
Cristobal Perez, 32, accepted a plea deal on two counts of first-degree homicide for the December 2023 taking pictures close to East Charleston Boulevard and North Honolulu Road. Timothy Brenton and Ashley Burrell died within the taking pictures. Three different unhoused individuals have been additionally injured.
Perez accepted a plea deal Monday as his trial was scheduled to start, data mentioned. He might face a further first-degree homicide cost ought to a 3rd taking pictures sufferer die, prosecutors mentioned. That particular person was not anticipated to outlive.
A sentencing listening to was scheduled for April 8. As a part of the deal, Clark County District Courtroom Choose Carli Kierny was anticipated to condemn Perez to the phrases of 40 years to life.
On the time of Perez’s arrest, police additionally arrested his girlfriend, Kylee Au Younger, accusing her of driving a getaway automotive. Younger faces two counts of open homicide and was scheduled to seem in court docket for negotiations in her case the identical day as Perez’s sentencing.
