Ex-Boyfriend In Fatal Romeoville Shooting Sentenced To 122 Years
(CBS) – A Cicero man who fatally shot his 15-year-old girlfriend in Romeoville in February has been sentenced to 122 years in prison, Will County authorities announced Monday.
A jury last month found Erick Maya, 24, guilty of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder, among other charges. He was accused of fatally shooting teen Briana Valle while she and her mother sat in a parked vehicle on Feb. 15.
Maya had been been harassing Valle, his former girlfriend, and was the focus of an order of protection the teen's mother had sought to have enforced in Cook County at the time of the shooting, CBS 2 reported previously.
Valle died from her injuries two days after the shooting. Her mother, Alicia Guerrero, who also had been shot in the ambush, survived. Maya, who had met the teen online, was captured after a brief manhunt.
"This cowardly manipulator killed an innocent girl because he couldn't stand that she wanted to escape his control. And then he shot her mother, who was fortunate to survive this vicious attack," Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow said in a written statement. "Erick Maya will now spend the rest of his life in prison, where he will never control even the smallest aspect of his own life, and where he will never be free to harm another young girl or her family."