Man Sentenced To 46 Years In Glen Burnie Double Murder

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GLEN BURNIE, Md. (WJZ) — A Brooklyn antheral was sentenced Wednesday to 46 years successful situation for the murders of 2 men killed during a botched cause deal, Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess said.

Edwin Hurtado-Valdez, 22, was convicted successful June of second-degree execution and firearms charges successful the 2019 shooting deaths of Antwon Queen and Antwan Briggs. He was sentenced to 18 years for each of the murders and a full of 10 years for the weapon charges. The sentences volition tally backmost to back.

“The lives of these 2 young men abruptly ended implicit a marijuana woody gone deadly. It’s been much than 2 years since the suspect murdered Mr. Queen and Mr. Briggs, who were longtime friends, and past attempted to fly to Mexico with the assistance of his woman and her household successful bid to prevention himself,” Leitess said. “The suspect volition astir surely beryllium deported aft serving his sentence.”

Queen was recovered changeable respective times extracurricular a Glen Burnie flat gathering by officers investigating a study of shots fired March 24, 2019. Briggs was recovered wrong the gathering suffering from respective gunshot wounds. Both men died astatine the scene.

Witnesses told investigators they saw a man, aboriginal identified arsenic Hurtado-Valdez, rifling done Queen’s pockets aft the shooting earlier helium took disconnected successful a metallic Nissan Maxima. Based connected the conveyance statement and different leads, investigators zeroed successful connected Hurtado-Valdez, who fled the country. He was aboriginal arrested successful Mexico and extradited to Anne Arundel County to look charges.

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The 22-year-old’s wife, Cambrea Sieck, was arrested connected charges of accessory aft the fact. The result of her lawsuit wasn’t instantly wide Thursday.