The jury will return at 9 a.m. Monday to consider the sentence during the mitigation phase for the Cincinnati man. He could receive 25 years to life in prison, 30 to life, life without parole or the death penalty for his conviction on two counts of aggravated murder, one count of attempted aggravated murder and participating in a criminal gang.
Prosecutors say Hernandez-Martinez was complicit in the July 13, 2008, gang-motivated killing of Evelvin Osveli-Morales and Marlon Enamordo-Gomez outside the former Casa Tequila on Ohio 4 in Fairfield. He and Hector Alvarenga-Retana, the alleged trigger man, are part of the multinational, violent gang MS-13, and the shootings were a mission carried out by the duo because the victims wore red and disrespected the gang, according to the prosecution.
The case centered around the testimony of a husband and wife.
Corinna Barrios-Quiennores was the a back seat passenger in a black Honda early July 13, 2008, when she testified Wednesday that driver Alvarenga-Retana fired multiple shots into a car caring the victims and Jimmy Enamordo-Gomez, brother of Marlon, who was not hit by bullets.
She said after Alvarenga-Retana threatened her twice with a gun, she shut up and told no one for two years, not even her husband, Jimmy Ortiz, who testified Hernandez-Martinez confessed to the shooting about a year after the incident when he saw him at a Columbus bar. He said he didn’t know his wife was in the car.
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