This undated photo provided by the Carson City Sheriff’s Office in Carson City, Nev., shows suspect Wilbur Martinez-Guzman. Authorities investigating four recent Nevada killings say murder charges are pending against Martinez-Guzman, suspected of being in the U.S. illegally. (Carson City Sheriff’s Office via AP)
GARDNERVILLE RANCHOS, Nev. (AP) – Prosecutors in northern Nevada were preparing to charge a 19-year-old from El Salvador with killing four people as investigators looked for links between the victims and the man in the U.S. illegally, authorities said Wednesday.
“They’re continuing to look at, ‘How were these cases connected?'” Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said of the separate shootings carried out in a six-day span this month.
Two women were found dead in their homes days apart in a tight-knit community, and the bodies of a couple were discovered in their house about an hour’s drive north, in Reno.
A motive for the slayings is not known. Wilbur Ernesto Martinez-Guzman has been arrested and is expected in court Thursday in Carson City, Nevada’s capital city.
ADDS LOCATION OF RENO, NEVADA – This 2006 photo provided by Tom Cates shows Gerald David in Reno, Nev. A man suspected of being in the U.S. illegally shot and killed several people in Nevada over the past few weeks, including David and his wife, authorities said, and the slayings added fuel to the immigration debate. On Jan. 16, 2019, the bodies of 81-year-old Gerald David, and his 80-year-old wife, Sharon, were found in their home on the southern edge of Reno. (Tom Cates via AP)
“I have a hard time believing these were random,” Furlong told The Associated Press of the killings.