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Monique Maestas Teen Killer Murders 3 Year Old Girl

Monique Maestas Teen Killer

Monique Maestas was sixteen years old when she and her brother Beau murdered a three year old girl and paralyzed her ten year old sister. According to court documents Monique Maestas and her brother were upset that the dope they bought from the murdered girls mother was fake. They went looking for the drug dealer but found her children instead. This teen killer was sentenced to forty seven years to life while her brother Beau Maestas was given a death sentence

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No longer in Nevada prison system. States out of state confinement. Looks like she is in the Connecticut Department Of Corrections

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A 20-year-old Utah woman was sentenced Thursday to 47 years to life in prison in a brutal knife attack that killed one little girl and left another paralyzed outside a Nevada casino in 2003.

Monique Maestas read a letter of apology for “lives lost and changed” by the stabbings that killed 3-year-old Kristyanna Cowan and severed the spine of Cowan’s 10-year-old sister, Brittney Bergeron.

Maestas’ brother, Beau Maestas, 23, said nothing before Clark County District Judge Donald Mosley scheduled him to die by lethal injection and tacked on a sentence of up to 75 years in prison.

“This case has to be one of the most horrendous I have ever been involved with,” Mosley said. “It is a tragedy all the way around … brought on by this scourge in our community, narcotics.”

A jury decided in August for the death penalty for Beau Maestas, who previously pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. Thursday’s additional sentences were for his guilty pleas to attempted murder with a weapon, burglary with a weapon and conspiracy.

The judge scheduled Beau Maestas to die the week of Dec. 11-17, but that date will be pushed back years while the death sentence is automatically appealed.

Monique Maestas, who pleaded guilty to the same charges, was not eligible for the death penalty because she was 16 at the time of the attack. Her brother was 19.

Mosley noted that Monique Maestas could apply for parole when she is 63.

Monique Maestas avoided trial by pleading guilty the same day the jury returned the death penalty verdict against her brother. Her plea spared Brittney Bergeron from having to testify about the bloody January 2003 attack, which happened in a trailer parked outside a casino in Mesquite.

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A jury decided Tuesday that a 22-year-old Utah man should die by lethal injection for brutally stabbing two little girls left alone in a trailer outside a Mesquite casino in 2003.

Beau Santino Maestas sat silently, blinked twice and kept his eyes downcast as the verdict was read. Maestas, who only recently apologized for the knife attack, had said the stabbings were revenge for a drug rip-off. He pleaded guilty in May 2005 to murder and attempted murder.

“This is a tragic case, for those poor girls and for Beau,” defense lawyer Thomas Ericsson said after Maestas was led away in shackles. Ericsson had tried to convince the jury of seven women and five men that Maestas had such a horrific childhood that he should be spared the death penalty.

He will become the 82nd person on Nevada’s death row when he is formally sentenced Aug. 30 by Clark County District Judge Donald Mosley.

Maestas admitted killing 3-year-old Kristyanna Cowan and stabbing Cowan’s half-sister, 10-year-old Brittney Bergeron. Brittney was left paralyzed from the waist down in the Jan. 22, 2003, attack.

A trauma surgeon said Brittney had been stabbed 20 times, including wounds that severed her spine. Kristyanna died of multiple stab wounds to the head, throat and back.

Maestas, who was 19 at the time of the killing, and his 16-year-old sister, Monique Maestas, were accused of forcing their way into the trailer and attacking the girls after the girls’ mother, Tamara Bergeron, and her then-boyfriend, Robert Schmidt, sold the Maestas pair salt in place of methamphetamine.

Brittney’s pluck and persistence as she teetered near death, then slowly recovered, riveted a region mortified by the bloody attack and appalled by allegations that the girls had been left alone while their drug-addicted mother and her boyfriend gambled at the casino

https://www.deseret.com/2006/8/23/19970034/utahn-to-die-for-stabbing-2-nevada-girls

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Jesus Macedo-Perez Teen Killer Drive By Shooting

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Jesus Macedo-Perez was seventeen when he exchanged gang signs with another teenager in Indiana that would end in murder. According to court documents Jesus Macedo-Perez was a passenger in a vehicle in Elkhart Indiana when they spotted a rival gang member, Jesus and the other teen exchanged gang sings and Macedo-Perez would pull out a gun, fire at the other teen and killed him. This teen killer would be quickly arrested and would take a plea to escape a life sentence and was sentenced to sixty five years in prison. Jesus Macedo-Perez was featured in the documentary Kids Behind Bars

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DOC Number243898
First NameJESUS
Middle Name
Last NameMACEDO-PEREZ
Suffix
Date of Birth11/14/1996
GenderMale
RaceHispanic
Facility/LocationWabash Valley Level 3 Facility
Earliest Possible Release Date *
*Offenders scheduled for release on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday are released on Monday. Offenders scheduled for release on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday are released on Thursday. Offenders whose release date falls on a Holiday are released on the first working day prior to the Holiday.

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Kenneth Barhams wore his son’s student ID card from a cord around his neck Thursday morning. He talked about the son he will never see graduate.

Barhams spoke on the witness stand in Elkhart Circuit Court. His words were heard by Jesus Macedo-Perez, the 17-year-old Elkhart resident who’d admitted to killing 16-year-old Braxton Barhams.

“Braxton was my baby,” the elder Barhams said. “…You took him from me.”

In keeping with his plea deal, Macedo-Perez was sentenced Thursday to 65 years in the Department of Correction. Circuit Court Judge Terry Shewmaker gave Macedo-Perez credit for 172 days he’d been incarcerated.

Braxton Barhams, a Concord High School student, was slain in a June 22 drive-by shooting in the area of Benham and Garfield avenues in Elkhart. Macedo-Perez, 16 years old at the time of the murder, was later charged. In exchange for Macedo-Perez’s guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to not pursue a criminal gang sentence enhancement against the teen.

A probable cause affidavit unsealed Thursday yielded details about the slaying.

According to the court document, two juvenile witnesses interviewed by police said they were walking with Barhams at the time of the shooting. A gray Impala went past the group south on Benham, with Macedo-Perez — whom one of the witnesses described as a good friend — as a passenger.

A witness told police that Macedo-Perez flashed gang signs at Barhams, and Barhams did the same in response.

The affidavit reads that the witness “stated the driver of the Impala executed a U-turn at the intersection of West Garfield Avenue and Benham Avenue and proceeded north on Benham Avenue. (The witness) observed Jesus Macedo with a large gray gun in his hand, which Jesus Macedo fired the gun (four to five) times out of the Impala in the direction of both witnesses and Barhams.”

The Impala sped away. According to one witness, Barhams said, “I got shot, I got shot,” then fell to the ground.

Medics were called to the scene and transported Barhams to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:39 p.m. Macedo-Perez was arrested June 23 at his home.

In court Thursday, Chief Deputy Prosecutor Vicki Becker said Macedo-Perez joined and was associated with the Latin Kings gang. Macedo-Perez’s gang involvement began when he was 14 years old.

A family grieves

On the witness stand Thursday, Kenneth Barhams said he never thought he’d bury his child. The slain youth’s mother, Jeanette Dancler, also talked about the impact of the murder.

“It’s broken my heart to the point where I didn’t want to live,” Dancler said. “…I never got to say goodbye to my son.”

Dancler said she doesn’t hate Macedo-Perez, adding, “I actually feel sorry for him.” She also voiced a question about her son’s murder.

“I would like to know why,” she said. “Why was he chosen to be killed?”

Barhams’ cousin, Victoria Honorable, also told Macedo-Perez her family doesn’t hate him.

“We forgive you, because if we hold vengeance against you, that’s our soul,” she said. Someone called out “Amen!” from the audience section.

Given the opportunity to speak, Macedo-Perez apologized to Barhams’ family, and started to address his own.

“To my family, I’d like to say…” Macedo-Perez began before he broke down. His attorney, Kevin Milner, finished reading the teen’s prepared statement. In part, it was directed to his mother.

“I should have been a better son,” Milner read on his client’s behalf. “You didn’t fail me.”

Near the end of the sentencing, in response to a question from Judge Shewmaker, Jesus Macedo-Perez said he made a big mistake and he can’t take it back.

“Violence is not the answer, is it?,” Shewmaker asked.

“No,” Jesus Macedo-Perez replied.

https://www.goshennews.com/news/local_news/teen-gets-years-for-murder/article_b66538fb-44d9-5017-a1b7-0c2843085e47.html

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Jesus Macedo-Perez is serving a 65 year sentence

Dustin Lynch Teen Killer Murders Teen Girl

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Dustin Lynch was fifteen years old when he murdered a teenage girl. According to court documents Dustin Lynch would beat the victim with a bedpost before fatally stabbing her to death. Dustin Lynch would be sentenced to life in prison without parole. While in prison this teen killer would murder his cellmate

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Number A460592

DOB 12/03/1986

Gender Male

Race White

Admission Date 12/23/2003

Institution Ohio State Penitentiary

Status INCARCERATED

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Telling the judge “do what you have to do,” a former inmate at Toledo Correctional Institution stood passively as he was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing his cellmate.

Dustin Lynch, 26, refused to give Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Gary Cook any reason to sentence him to less than the maximum sentence for aggravated murder and would not allow his attorney to offer any mitigating factors.

“I feel like whatever sentence you give me, whether it’s 20-to-life, 25-to-life, 30-to-life, it amounts to life without parole because I’m already doing a 20-to-life sentence. So, do what you have to do,” Lynch said.

Lynch, who was in prison for killing a Medina County girl in 2002, pleaded no contest and was found guilty Oct. 2 of aggravated murder in the March 17 strangulation of Arturo Lopez, 43, formerly of Port Clinton. Lynch also carved the word “CHOMO” — a reference to child molester — into Lopez’s back.

The homicide was the second this year at the Toledo prison, which has since experienced two additional slayings of inmates.

Jennifer Donovan, an assistant Lucas County prosecutor, asked the court to impose life without parole because of the violent way in which Lynch killed his first victim — a 17-year-old girl in her family’s home where he had been welcomed — and his second victim in prison — with a rope he had directed Lopez to make.

“This takes time. It takes effort. It takes anger,” she said, adding that Lynch made statements after the 2002 murder that he would kill again. “This is an individual who should not be back on the streets.”

Defense attorney Jeff Simpson asked for a sentence that would give Lynch the opportunity for parole.

“Dustin is a young man, a lot of life ahead of him,” Mr. Simpson said. A sentence with parole eligibility “would give Dustin something to work towards.”

Judge Cook rejected that, citing Lynch’s violent history, his diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder, and his behavior record in prison.

In addition to the maximum prison sentence, Judge Cook also ordered Lynch to pay the maximum fine of $25,000 — something he said Lynch may one day be able to do if he finds a way to profit from the story of his crimes as he once said he would do.

“This is not a free license for you to go back to the prison system and act with total disregard for any of your cellmates, because if that’s the case you’ll be brought back to another court and sentenced again, and eventually you’ll just run out of opportunities to have any interaction with anybody else in any community,” Judge Cook said.

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A convicted killer serving 20 years to life has been handed a life sentence for killing an inmate at Toledo Correctional Center.

A judge sentenced 26-year-old Dustin Lynch on Tuesday to life without parole.

Lynch had pleaded no contest in the strangling of Arturo Lopez last March at the north Toledo prison. According to online records for Lopez, the 43-year-old was behind bars on a rape conviction from 2005 and was scheduled for within a year of his murder.The Blade reports that the 26-year-old Lynch already was serving a sentence for killing a 17-year-old girl in Medina County in 2002.

The most recent inmate-on-inmate murder was the jailâ??s fourth in the past 13-months, in addition to an inmate suicide. Prior to the recent string of violence, the last inmate murder at TOCI occurred in 2000. A recent report from the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee suggests the increase in violence is the result of changes enacted by Governor John Kasich in 2011.

Records show violence at the prison rose after the state started doubling up inmates in the same cell to deal with overcrowding. ecords show violence at the prison rose after the state started doubling up inmates in the same cell to deal with overcrowding.

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A 17-year-old changed his plea to guilty in the beating death of a teenage girl despite the advice of his attorney.

Dustin Lynch offered no explanation for why he punched, stabbed and beat JoLynn Mishne (pictured, right) to death in her Montville Township home in November 2002.

When asked by Judge Christopher Collier on Monday whether he had anything to say before his sentencing, he whispered, “Nope.”

Lynch’s attorney, V. Lee Winchell said he was opposed to Lynch’s plea. He said Lynch insisted that he wanted to plead guilty to a single count of aggravated murder, which carries life in prison with no chance of parole for 20 years, in exchange for other charges being dropped.

Lynch, who was 15 at the time of the murder, could not have faced the death penalty.

An hour before the abrupt change of plea, Winchell, was prepared to ask to be removed from the case because of Lynch’s erratic behavior, which included mailing bloodstained, taunting confession letters from jail to the victim’s family and prosecutors.

Mishne’s mother, Lori, sat hunched over in the courtroom and sobbed loudly as her statement had to be read by someone else.

“I feel not one shred of compassion,” she said. “I want (Lynch) to suffer.”

She said it was the compassion that she taught her daughter that led to her death.

Lynch had been a guest at the Mishne home after JoLynn, 17, said the wayward teen had no other place to stay.

A week into his stay, JoLynn’s father, Merle “Mickey” Mishne, found his daughter’s body in the home.

Merle Mishne directed his anger at the court system and the prosecutor’s office, which he called a joke.

Mishne complained that, because of Prosecutor Dean Holman’s eagerness to cut a deal and avoid a trial, he will never know what motivated Lynch to kill his daughter.

Holman said the Mishnes agreed to the plea agreement.

https://www.cleveland19.com/story/1305439/teen-pleads-guilty-in-girls-beating-death/

David Ludwig Teen Killer Murders 2 People

David Ludwig Teen Killer

David Ludwig was eighteen years old when he shot and killed his girlfriends parents. According to court documents David Ludwig was involved in an argument about his relationship with his girlfriends parents when he pulled out a gun and shot and killed the pair. David Ludwig would take off with the fourteen year old girlfriend though they did not make it to far as he crashed the car into a tree. This teen killer would be charged and convicted of kidnapping and double murder and be sentenced to life in prison

David Ludwig 2023 Information

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Parole Number:GR6289
Age: 32
Date of Birth: 04/28/1987
Race: WHITE
Height: 6′ 02″
Gender: MALE
Citizenship: USA
Complexion: MEDIUM
Current Location: DALLAS
Permanent Location: DALLAS
Committing County: LANCASTER

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Double murderer David G. Ludwig has been transferred to a state prison in Indiana County to serve part of his life sentence for killing his girlfriend’s parents.

Ludwig, 19, was transferred Aug. 3 to the maximum-security State Correctional Institute at Pine Grove, said Susan Naughton, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections.

The former Lititz resident, who pleaded guilty to killing Michael and Cathryn Borden in their Lititz home in November, began his prison sentence in June at Camp Hill Prison.

“Mr. Ludwig will be assigned a job such as a janitorial or food services worker and take part in daily recreational activities as well as educational opportunities,” Naughton said. “He also will be around young people in the general population and be able to have visitors.”

Shortly after his sentencing, Ludwig was transferred June 20 from Lancaster County Prison to Camp Hill, where he underwent psychiatric, aptitude, substance-abuse and behavioral evaluations.

The state Department of Corrections selected the Indiana prison for Ludwig because of its “Young Adult Offenders Program.”

Designed for inmates ages 15 to 20, the program aims to teach self-responsibility, discipline, respect for others and self-esteem.

Pine Grove, which opened in 2000, houses many of the state’s worst young male criminals in a therapeutic community, according to the Department of Corrections.

Inmates at Pine Grove start each day at 6:10 a.m. A head count is conducted, and at 6:30 a.m. inmates convene for a workout that includes sit-ups, push-ups and running in place.

They return to their cells at 7:15 a.m. and change for breakfast, which starts at 7:30 a.m. Lunch is at 11:30 a.m. and dinner at 4:20 p.m.

The bulk of the day is filled with four hours of educational classes; four hours of job training in culinary arts, business, computer-assisted drafting, installing heating and cooling systems or janitorial maintenance; and four hours of individualized life-management skills.

Inmates also undergo a military-style 90-day leadership development program that promotes honor, discipline, integrity and respect.

The transition from county prison, where Ludwig earned a high school diploma, to a state corrections institution has been hard for the teen, said Merrill M. Spahn, one of Ludwig’s defense attorneys.

“The setting change has been difficult because county prison was smaller, and he had grown used to the environment,” Spahn said.

Ludwig’s parents, Gregory and Jane Ludwig, visited their son in Camp Hill and are planning a trip this week to Pine Grove, which is about 215 miles from their home in Lititz.

“His parents are disappointed because he wasn’t placed at a prison closer to home but feel he is in the best place for him,” Spahn said.

It costs about $120 a day to house an inmate at Pine Grove, which employs about 430 people.

Inmates can make 18 to 42 cents an hour working as carpenters, plumbers, cooks and maintenance workers. Their earnings can be used to purchase clothing, shoes, food and personal items at the prison commissary.

Most of the 250 inmates at Pine Grove stay until age 22 and then are transferred to serve the rest of their terms in adult prisons.

Ludwig pleaded guilty in June to the Nov. 13, 2005, slayings.

Ludwig shot the Bordens inside their home at 15 Royal Drive, Warwick Township, because they objected to his dating their 14-year-old daughter, Kara Beth.

Ludwig and Kara Beth fled together after the shootings and eluded authorities for about 28 hours before being arrested in Indiana. Kara Beth was not charged with any crime.

Judge David Ashworth sentenced Ludwig to serve two consecutive life terms plus 9½ to 19 years in state prison and ordered him to pay $125,000 in restitution.

No appeals are planned, Spahn said.

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A state appellate court denied David G. Ludwig’s latest request for relief, according to the Lancaster County district attorney’s office.

The convicted killer of a Warwick Township couple filed too late, authorities said.

David Ludwig, now 29, is serving two consecutive life terms for fatally shooting Michael and Cathryn Borden in their home in November 2005 after they told him he could no longer see their 14-year-old daughter, Kara Borden.

David Ludwig, 18 at the time, drew a pistol and shot both parents in the head as he was being shown to the door to leave

He fled with the daughter, and the couple was found a day later in Indiana.

In Ludwig’s most recent filing, he argued alleged issues including a request that he be treated as a juvenile killer serving life. He pointed to a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that deemed life sentences for juvenile defendants “unconstitutional.”

He also pointed to “ineffective assistance” of his previous lawyer.

The Pennsylvania Superior Court recently denied the request, concurring with Lancaster County Judge David Ashworth who previously found the challenge to be untimely and without merit, according to the district attorney’s office.

Ashworth said Ludwig was not due the same consideration as juveniles because he was 18½ at the time of the murders.

In June 2006 David Ludwig pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, statutory sexual assault and related charges in exchange for a sentence of two consecutive life terms and a consecutive term of 9½ to 19 years in prison.

David Ludwig is currently incarcerated in Luzerene County.

https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/man-who-killed-warwick-township-couple-fled-with-14-year-old-daughter-denied-relief-in/article_e66a6cd8-dd8a-11e6-a8ab-4bdd87e77f31.html

Barry Loukaitis Teen Killer School Shooter

Barry Loukaitis Teen Killer

Barry Loukaitis was fifteen years old when he walked into his school and shot dead a teacher and two students. This teen killer would hold his class hostage for over an hour before he was tackled by a teacher. Barry Loukaitis would be convicted on all three of the murders and receive a prison sentence of two life sentences plus over two hundred years. On appeal the sentence was reduced to one hundred and eighty nine years.

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Clallam Bay Corrections Center

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On the day of the shooting, Barry Loukaitis was dressed as a Wild West-style gunslinger and was wearing a black duster. He was armed with a .30–30 caliber hunting rifle and two handguns (.357 caliber revolver and .25 caliber semiautomatic pistol) that belonged to his father, and was carrying approximately 78 rounds of ammunition.

Barry Loukaitis walked from his house to his school, where he had entered his algebra classroom during fifth period. He opened fire at students, killing two, Arnold Fritz and Manuel Vela, Jr., both fourteen. Another student, 13-year-old Natalie Hintz, sustained critical gunshot wounds to the right arm and abdomen, and was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Barry Loukaitis then fatally shot his algebra teacher Leona Caires in the chest. As his classmates began to panic, Loukaitis reportedly said, “This sure beats the hell out of algebra, doesn’t it?”[1], which is often erroneously reported as a quote from the Stephen King novel Rage. Teacher and coach Jon Lane entered the classroom upon hearing the gunshots to find Loukaitis holding his classmates hostage. He planned to use one hostage so he could safely exit the school. Lane volunteered as the hostage, and Loukaitis kept him at gunpoint with his rifle. Lane then grabbed the weapon from Loukaitis and wrestled him to the ground, later assisting in the evacuation of students.

Lane kept Barry Loukaitis subdued until police arrived at the scene.

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School shooter Barry Loukaitis, who killed three people and wounded a fourth at a Moses Lake middle school in 1996, was resentenced on Wednesday to 189 years in prison.

Loukaitis, 36, was resentenced as the result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2012 that said people younger than 16 could not receive life sentences without parole. Loukaitis did not contest the new sentence sought by prosecutors and also waived his right to any future appeals.

Family members of the victims who died on Feb. 2, 1996, at Frontier Middle School told Grant County Superior Court Judge Michael Cooper about the pain Loukaitis’ rampage caused them. Several said at the hearing in Ephrata that having to speak about the shootings again more than 20 years later reopened old wounds.

Loukaitis, wearing handcuffs, directly addressed his victims and their family members for the first time, just before he was sentenced.

“I am sorry for what I did.” Loukaitis, who has graying hair and wore glasses, said. “What I did was weak and evil and senseless.”

Loukaitis said he did not have the tools at the age of 14 to deal with his anger and hatred toward others.

“I didn’t have the skills I needed to learn to be a man,” he said.

“It was never my intention to kill everyone in the classroom,” he added.

Gripping testimony also came from Natalie Hintz, who was 13 when Loukaitis shot her in the arm. She nearly died of her injuries.

“It is with disbelief and heavy heart that I am here today,” Hintz said of the resentencing process.

“I’ve re-lived the day I was shot over and over again,” Hintz said, adding that “my childhood ended” that day.

She endured years of physical therapy and still does not have the full use of her arm, Hintz said.

She recalled lying next to a dead classmate and watching Loukaitis shoot their teacher to death.

“Your sentence was to be final, like death is final,” Hintz said. “Today I am being victimized all over again.”

Loukaitis carried a hunting rifle and two handguns into his math class at Frontier Middle School. He shot and killed teacher Leona Caires, 49, and classmates Manuel Vela and Arnold Fritz, both 14. Hintz was wounded.

Teacher Jon Lane heard the gunshots and rushed to the classroom. He confronted and disarmed Loukaitis and then pinned him down until police arrived. Lane’s heroism likely prevented additional deaths.

But on Wednesday, Lane said he still had questions about the day.

“Why did you do it?” Lane asked of Loukaitis. “Why that day and that classroom?”

Manuel Vela Sr. told the judge he often wondered what his son would have been like as an adult.

“We’ll never know,” Vela said.

“He knew exactly what he was doing when he murdered our son,” Vela said of Loukaitis.

Alice Fritz, the mother of Arnold Fritz, remembered coming upon the body of her son in the hospital.

“I held his hand for a long time, sitting next to him,” she recalled. His hand was cold, she said.

Alice Fritz recalled that she went to visit Loukaitis in prison five years ago. She said she believed Loukaitis was genuinely contrite about the shootings.

But Victoria Kimble, a daughter of teacher Leona Caires, said she felt a deep hatred for Loukaitis.

She said her mother loved teaching math.

“She died with a piece of chalk in one hand and an eraser in the other,” Kimble said.

Cooper was the original judge in the case who came out of retirement to handle the new sentencing.

After the shootings, Loukaitis was tried as an adult in Seattle in an attempt to find an impartial jury. He claimed an insanity defense that was rejected by the jury and convicted in 1997.

In prison, Loukaitis has earned high school and college degrees and worked as a teacher’s aide.

“I appreciate Mr. Loukaitis’s words and his efforts in prison to better himself,” the judge said.

The judge also said he appreciated the strength of the people who testified on Wednesday, 21 years after the shootings.

“Perhaps it will bring some closure,” he said.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/moses-lake-school-shooter-barry-loukaitis-resentenced-to-189-years/

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Barry Loukaitis is currently incarcerated at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center

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Barry Loukaitis is serving a life sentence