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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 29 January 2019

In this Jan. 24, 2019 file photo, Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, 19, of El Salvador, is escorted into
the courtroom for his initial appearance in Carson City Justice Court in Carson City, Nev.
Associated Press
Salvadoran accused of 4 Nevada

killings worked for 2 victims

By SCOTT SONNER and KEN he is accused of killing in with a crime but was ques-
RITTER nearby Gardnerville. tioned by immigration au-
Associated Press The document was used thorities following her son's
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A to obtain an arrest war- arrest and was given a
19-year-old Salvadoran rant for Martinez-Guzman, hearing date, Carson City Police investigate the scene where several Houston Police of-
man facing murder charg- who was arrested Jan. 19 Sheriff Ken Furlong said. ficers were shot in Houston on Monday, Jan. 28, 2019.
Associated Press
es in four killings over a in Carson City and is jailed She was the registered
six-day span in Nevada there on charges that he owner of a 2006 BMW 325i
worked last year as a land- possessed weapons and that Martinez-Guzman was Houston police say 5
scaper at the home of a other items stolen from the driving when he was arrest-
Reno couple he's accused Davids and sold jewelry be- ed, and in which authorities officers injured in shooting
of killing, using a gun that longing to Gerald David say they found the murder
he stole from their property, and another victim. weapon.
authorities said. Martinez-Guzman admit- The .22-caliber revolver HOUSTON (AP) — Five scene and SWAT officers
Wilber Ernesto Martinez- ted also killing Gerald Da- was recovered from the Houston officers were in- were working to make sure
Guzman told investiga- vid, and the affidavit al- car, and the affidavit said jured in a shooting Monday no one else was inside the
tors he used a .22-caliber leges that his DNA was a .22-caliber bullet with in an incident involving a building where the shoot-
revolver stolen less than found on the .22-caliber DNA matching Martinez- suspect and taken to a ing took place, police said.
two weeks earlier from the gun also used to kill Connie Guzman was found on the hospital, police said. Additional information on
property of Sharon and Koontz and Sophia Renken kitchen floor at the David Houston police tweeted the suspect was not imme-
Gerald David to kill them in their homes. Koontz was home. the officers were "struck diately available.
Jan. 16. found dead Jan. 10. Ren- Douglas County District At- with gunfire following an Both Turner and Police
"The lady was coming out. ken's body was found Jan. torney Mark Jackson told encounter with a suspect" Chief Art Acevado went
I got scared and shot at 13. reporters Monday that in- Monday afternoon in a to the hospital where the
her," Martinez-Guzman is The Davids were prominent vestigators in Douglas and neighborhood in southeast injured officers were tak-
quoted telling a Washoe Reno Rodeo Association Washoe counties had "a Houston. en, but didn't immediately
County detective in an members, and Martinez- high level of confidence" Joe Gamaldi, president comment to media there.
affidavit filed in Reno on Guzman is accused of pos- that Martinez-Guzman act- of the Houston Police Of- They were scheduled to
Monday. It alleged that he sessing several Western- ed alone in the killings. ficers' Union, tweeted that hold a news conference
broke into "outbuildings" on style belt buckles bearing Washoe County DA Chris two officers were in critical later Monday evening.
the sprawling David prop- their names stolen from Hicks said it could be 30 condition and the other Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
erty on Jan. 3 and Jan. 4 their home. days before prosecutors three in stable condition at said the shooting was a
and made off with a cache Someone using an Apple decide whether to pursue Memorial Hermann-Texas "solemn reminder" of the
of rifles and the handgun. account belonging to the death penalty against Medical Center in Houston. service and sacrifices
Martinez-Guzman had Martinez-Guzman's mother him. One of the officers was made by officers.
worked for a landscaping tried to activate an Apple Hicks said Martinez-Guz- transported to the hospi- "The city of Houston and
company at the Davids' watch stolen from Koontz, man's immigration status tal by helicopter, Gamaldi the Houston Police De-
property for four months, the affidavit said. had nothing to do with the said. "Please keep them partment will have what-
ending last July. It was not The mother, identified in criminal charges, which and their families in your ever state resources they
immediately clear if the job the affidavit as Sonia Guz- also included five burglary thoughts and prayers," he need to bring swift justice
linked him to two women man, hasn't been charged counts.q said. to those involved," Abbott
A suspect was dead at the said in a statement.q