COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—A Fort Carson soldier convicted of killing two people with an AK-47 was sentenced Thursday to two consecutive life sentences.
A judge in Colorado Springs also sentenced Jomar Falu-Vives, 25, to another 140 years for wounding a fellow soldier in another drive-by shooting. A jury on Wednesday convicted the Iraq war veteran of first-degree murder and attempted murder.
Falu-Vives apologized Thursday, saying he wanted his voice heard.
“I’m a soldier and I’ve always been a soldier,” he said. “And I’m ready to take the road which you are going to set before me. Sorry.”
Dave Szody, whose son was wounded in one of the shootings, was upset by the comments. Dave Szody, father of Army Capt. Zachary A Szody, said after the sentencing that Falu-Vives “is not a soldier in any army.”
Falu-Vives’ gun was used in the shootings, but his attorneys had argued that he did not pull the trigger.
Falu Vives was a member of an infantry unit within 4th Brigade Combat Team, which nicknamed itself the “Lethal Warriors.”
The people killed in the June 2008 drive-by shooting, Amairany “Mayra” Cervantes and Cesar Ramirez-Ibanez, were hanging yard sale signs when they were gunned down.
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Information from: The Gazette,
