A 24-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for murdering his girlfriend during an acid trip.
An Adams County District Court judge announced the sentence Wednesday after Marcos Gutierrez pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the Adams County District Court on June 24.
“This was a horrific and gruesome crime,” said Brian Mason, the 17th Judicial District Attorney, in a news release. “Our hearts go out to the victim and her family. I hope this sentence today will give them some measure of closure and peace.”
In April 2020, Gutierrez was tripping LSD – a hallucinogen – in an Aurora apartment when he started looking for weapons, according to witnesses. After finding a knife in the kitchen, he slit his girlfriend’s throat when she left the bathroom.
A witness reports that she asked him, “Why did you do that? What did you do?” She fell to the ground, then died later at a hospital.
