Eight years after a lady’s physique was present in a grassy space on a Hialeah motel, fully bare, and coated in blood, a Miami-Dade jury beneficial her killer also needs to die.
Last week, those self same jurors discovered Ronald Lopez Andrade responsible of raping and later killing 30-year-old Yaimi Guevara Machado.
Late Wednesday night, regardless of not all jurors contemplating the crime to be heinous, atrocious, or merciless, in an 8-4 vote they nonetheless beneficial dying as a possible punishment.
Jurors additionally discovered first-degree homicide was dedicated whereas the defendant was engaged within the fee of the sexual battery.
According to the arrest report, Machado was on the Chesapeake Motel at 935 W. Okeechobee Road with a buddy when she was unintentionally locked out of her room whereas not absolutely dressed.
Lopez Andrade had arrived on the foyer of the motel round 4:30 a.m. and purchased 4 beers and cigarettes, the report mentioned. He harassed a cleansing girl and the clerk and requested the workers if there have been any prostitutes, the report mentioned.
Lopez Andrade then got here throughout Machado, who was dressed solely in a bra and denims, and let her have his shirt. But when Machado refused Lopez Andrade’s advances, he turned enraged and so they started to battle, the report mentioned.
Prosecutors say Lopez Andrade raped her after which strangled her to dying.
Machado’s physique was present in a grassy space on the motel property fully bare.
The tragic dying shook the South Florida household and the Hialeah motel was ordered to pay the mother and father of the lady $12 million on account of its workers’s negligence in stopping her dying.
The lawsuit alleged that workers offered Lopez Andrade alcohol, tried to assist him discover a prostitute, and allowed Lopez Andrade to linger on motel property regardless of him not being a visitor.
The household additionally alleged workers didn’t kick Lopez Andrade out of the property after he sought sexual favors from a housekeeper.
As for the prison trial, Lopez Andrade could have one other listening to later this yr the place the decide could have the last word say on sentencing.
This is the second time this yr a Miami-Dade jury has beneficial dying. In an 8-4 vote, jurors beneficial a dying sentence for Ysrael Granda, a person discovered responsible of ordering to kill his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend. Granda is awaiting sentencing.