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The mother and father of a 19-year-old nightclub employee whose throat was slit by a former Rutgers’ basketball participant are offended that he was solely sentenced to 22 years in jail in Tijuana, Mexico.
Logan Kelley, 27, admitted to murdering Isis Atalia Montoya Romero on the Adelita nightclub in February 2021, when he mistook the 19-year-old mom who labored there for another person. CCTV footage from a number of angles exhibits Kelley strolling up behind Montoya Romero with a 4-inch clip-blade navy fashion knife and slitting her throat earlier than operating away. She had been beforehand seen strolling with a shopper on the membership.
Kelley apparently didn't know his sufferer, in response to native media reviews, however as an alternative had meant to harm one other girl he met on the membership, which is described as a “conventional mens membership” that options dancing and prostitution.
Safety personnel had been in a position to cease Kelley and first recognized him as a member of the navy as a result of kind of weapon he used. He by no means served. He solely performed three video games for Rutgers College earlier than being dismissed from the workforce for unknown causes.
Kelley’s mild sentence was a part of a plea deal that features a fee of about $40,000 to the sufferer’s household, together with her 4-year-old son. Costs of femicide in opposition to the basketball participant that may have carried a minimal sentence of 40 years had been dropped as a part of the deal.
The sufferer’s father was offended on the sentence. “The choose, the prosecutor, even my daughter’s legal professional all acted in favor of (Kelley) and never for her. I'm very annoyed by all of the corruption and the deception,” José Montoya advised New Jersey Superior Media. “There may be video of what this murderer did to my daughter. He virtually decapitated her! It looks like the choose didn’t even see the video.”