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A Connecticut antheral has been sentenced to 33 years successful situation for the stray-bullet sidesplitting of a Puerto Rican Olympic athlete’s mother
WATERBURY, Conn. -- A Connecticut antheral was sentenced to 33 years successful situation connected Tuesday for the stray-bullet killing of a Puerto Rican Olympic athlete's mother.
Jasper Greene, 23, of New Haven, was 1 of 3 men charged successful the decease of Mabel Martinez Antongiorgi connected April 9, 2022. The 56-year-old pistillate was sewing successful her location successful Waterbury, astir 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Hartford, erstwhile a slug flew done a partition and deed her successful the head.
Martinez Antongiorgi’s daughter, Yarimar Mercado Martinez, competed for the family's autochthonal Puerto Rico successful firearm shooting astatine the Olympics successful 2016, 2021 and 2024. She was successful Brazil for different contention erstwhile her parent was killed.
Greene pleaded blameworthy to murder successful February. His lawyer did not instantly respond to an email seeking remark aft Tuesday's sentencing successful Waterbury Superior Court.
According to tribunal testimony, the fatal shooting stemmed from a quality that 1 of the suspects, Franklin Robinson, had with a antheral who said hullo to his girlfriend. Robinson, Greene and different antheral changeable up a car parked connected Martinez Antongiorgi’s street, reasoning the antheral was wrong it. A slug went into Martinez Antongiorgi’s home. Another bystander was wounded but survived.
A assemblage convicted Robinson of execution and different charges successful 2023 and helium was aboriginal sentenced to 90 years successful prison.
The 3rd suspect, Levi Brock, has pleaded not blameworthy to aggregate charges successful the case, including murder, and awaits trial.
At the clip of her mother’s death, Mercado Martinez lamented successful societal media posts that she “couldn’t adjacent accidental goodbye.”
“Why you? Why this way?” she wrote. “You were conscionable sitting successful your small location sewing, arsenic you ever did.”
Martinez Antongiorgi and her hubby of implicit 30 years, John Luis Mercado, moved to Waterbury from Puerto Rico a fewer years aft the U.S. territory endured 2017’s devastating Hurricane Maria. At the clip of her death, they had acceptable a day to renew their wedding vows, their girl wrote astatine the time.
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