Thread: Man, 19, detained on immigration concerns wanted in 4 Nevada murders

Man, 19, detained on immigration concerns wanted in 4 Nevada murders

By Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News
Published 6 hours ago

Investigators in northern Nevada said a suspect in the murders of four people, three of them women, is in custody on an immigration hold and other charges.

Wilbur Ernesti Martinez-Guzman, 19, was arrested Saturday afternoon by deputies from the Carson County Sheriff's Office, Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam told a news conference Sunday.

"We feel confident we have the evidence to link him to all four homicides," Balaam said.

Investigators said the killings started on or around Jan. 10 in Gardnerville, a town south of Carson City. Connie Koontz, 56, was found shot and killed in her home. On Jan. 13, 74-year-old Sophia Renken was found dead in her home approximately a mile away from Koontz.

The FBI joined the investigation after the bodies of married couple Gerald David, 81, and Sharon David, 80, were found in their home on the southern edge of Reno Wednesday. Balaam told The Associated Press on Friday that all four killings were similar in the use of a firearm and the removal of objects from the victims' homes.

The sheriff urged residents to turn on outside lights, secure their homes and refuse to open the door for anyone they didn't know.

On Sunday, Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley told the Reno and Carson City communities: "We feel strongly that we have the man responsible for this and that you can continue to go about your daily activities and live normally."

Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong told reporters a tip led investigators to surveil Martinez-Guzman, who had lived in the Carson City area for approximately one year. Furlong added that immigration officials had said that Martinez-Guzman "was likely in the United States illegally and was detainable."

Martinez-Guzman was being held in the Carson City Jail on Sunday and was charged with burglary, possession of stolen property and obtaining money under false pretenses. Furlong added that an immigration hold had been placed on the suspect, who was not known to his office.

Washoe County District Attorney Chris Hicks said authorities would seek arrest warrants against Martinez-Guzman for the murders "in the coming days."

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If this isn't a national emergency, I don't know what would be.

DECLARE IT MR. PRESIDENT. STOP THIS SHUTDOWN. STOP THIS WAMBIE NAMBIE NEGOTIATING WITH THE DEMOQUACK LOONY BIN. AND STOP THIS INVASION BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY.

You are not safe at ANY age from these violent illegal alien vermin!

Killing 56, 74, 80 and 81 year olds!!!!

Stealing from them!

I said if this does not stop and they are REMOVED and stopped from entering our country there WILL be roaming packs of these foreign vermin who cannot afford to live here and they will commit crimes, steal from us and murder us!

It is already happening in Europe, a gang of men, stole that woman's puppies and beat her and tried to break her neck to sell those puppies for money!

Gardnerville is a beautiful little town you pass through in the shadow of a mountain range just south of Carson City. YOU are not safe in your little beautiful town anymore!!! I have been there many times. This is outrages!

This cancer is not just in our inner cities, they have spread to our small towns and countryside's.

Stop letting millions of foreigners in our country! This will do nothing but bring more crime and poverty.

This should be the straw that broke the camel's back...stop them coming here now!

They do NOT come here for a better life! They come here and make our lives a living hell.

THIS RIGHT HERE IS A FACT!

NATIONAL EMERGENCY...SHUT THAT DAMN BORDER DOWN

GO AFTER EVERY ILLEGAL IN THIS COUNTRY AND DEPORT THEM ON THE SPOT!

NO REFUGEES, NO ASYLUM, NO ILLEGALS...CLEAN THIS MESS UP...NOT REWARD DACA AND ILLEGALS WITH ASYLUM!

HOW WOULD PELOSI LIKE IT IF THIS WAS HER GRANDPARENTS OR LOVED ONES!

NO LEGAL PAPERS...THEN NO ENTRY AND NO RIGHTS!

GET ILLEGAL ALIENS OUT OF OUR SCHOOL NOW AND CUT OFF THE WELFARE AND FOOD STAMPS! MAKE THEM SELF DEPORT! GIVE THEM NOTHING!