Douglas County District Attorney Mark Jackson confers with defense attorney John Arrascada, as Wilber Martinez-Guzman sits during his sentencing in Douglas County court on March 3, 2022.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
Carson District Judge James Wilson on Friday sentenced Wilber Martinez-Guzman to up to 54 years on top of the multiple life sentences he received in Washoe and Douglas County this week.
He was sentenced to two consecutive life terms without possible parole in Washoe County on Monday for the murders of Gerold and Sharon David in January 2019. He was sentenced to two more life terms in Douglas County on Thursday for the murders of Connie Koontz and Sophia Renken just days before the Davids were shot with the same stolen revolver.
All those sentences were made consecutive to each other.
The Carson City sentencing took just over 30 minutes because DA Jason Woodbury said that, after the extensive and emotionally exhausting testimony in Washoe and Douglas counties, the dozen or so family members did not want to testify in Carson on Friday. He said after the hearing that they had been through enough this week.
Guzman confirmed to the judge that he knows his rights and also declined to make a statement before sentencing.
“It’s not possible to understand the sinister nature of the conduct that occurred here without commenting on the conduct in Douglas County and Washoe,” Woodbury told Wilson.
He said Guzman initially burglarized outbuildings at David property.
But, “he learned the stuff in the outbuildings was only going to get you so far. If he wanted the good stuff, the valuable stuff, the stuff people treasure, you had to go into the house.”
Woodbury said at the David home, Guzman, “spent hours, three and a half hours ransacking their house.”
He said Guzman killed Koontz by shooting her and then stealing jewelry, a computer and Apple watch among other items. He followed that a couple of days later by entering the Renken home and shooting her multiple times.
The next day, he entered the Davids’ south Reno home, first shooting Sherri David before shooting Jerald David.
Woodbury said there was no reason for the killings.
“There was no other reason than he had a car he couldn’t afford and was doing drugs he shouldn’t have taken,” he said.
In Carson City on Friday, Wilson said he would follow the plea agreement worked out by the prosecution and defense along with the families of the victims specifying the maximum 4-10-year sentences on three counts of burglary, the maximum 2-5-year sentences on each of four counts of possession of stolen property and the 19-48 months maximum on one count of a prohibited person in possession of a firearm.
All those sentences are consecutive to the murder sentences and to each other. That means on just the Carson City crimes, Guzman would have to serve a minimum of 21 years and up to 54 years in prison.
