A person who was once at the run for 2 months after a Kansas Town, Kansas, bar taking pictures that left 4 other folks lifeless and 5 injured has been convicted of 8 felonies.
A pass judgement on discovered Hugo Villanueva-Morales, 35, responsible Wednesday of capital homicide, tried first-degree homicide, irritated attack, 4 counts of irritated battery and prison ownership of a firearm.
He faces a sentence of lifestyles with out parole when he’s sentenced on July 1.
His lawyer, Mark Manna, mentioned prosecutors withdrew their understand to hunt demise in go back for him waiving his proper to a jury trial. Greater than two dozen witnesses seemed on the bench trial.
Villanueva-Morales and some other guy, Javier Alatorre, entered the Tequila KC bar and opened fireplace on Oct. 6, 2019. Police have mentioned the taking pictures it appears stemmed from an previous dispute within the bar, prompting the 2 males to go back to the bar with handguns and get started taking pictures.
Alatorre was once arrested a little while later, however Villanueva-Morales fled to Mexico, the place he wasn’t captured till two months after the taking pictures. Alatorre is now serving a 34-year sentence after pleading responsible to 4 counts of second-degree homicide.
Each suspects had earlier brushes with the regulation. On the time of the taking pictures, Villanueva-Morales was once going through a pending third-degree attack rate in Missouri. Court docket paperwork say he fought with a sheriff’s deputy in August 2019 after some other guy was once ordered to go away a membership in Kansas Town, Missouri.
Villanueva-Morales additionally have been stuck with artificial marijuana whilst serving greater than 4 years in a state jail for theft. The pass judgement on will have despatched him again to jail for 9 years however as a substitute put him on probation, which he violated via trying out sure for marijuana. He left prison every week earlier than the bar taking pictures, in keeping with a evaluation of courtroom information via AP.
Alatorre, in the meantime, confronted a number of fees stemming from a police chase on the time of the taking pictures.
