DENVER—Two brothers who pleaded guilty for their role in the killings of five people at a Denver bar are facing long prison sentences.
Joseph and Lynell Hill are scheduled to be sentenced Friday afternoon. Their plea agreements require them to testify against a third man being prosecuted in the killings at Fero’s Bar in October 2012, Dexter Lewis.
Lynell Hill’s plea agreement calls for a 70-year sentence. Joseph Hill agreed to be sentenced to life.
Investigators say the five victims were killed during a botched robbery motivated by Lynell Hill’s need for money to pay for an unrelated court case. They allegedly got away with just $170.
A fourth person who was at the bar, an informant for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, hasn’t been charged.
