Josef Toney Murders 2 In New Mexico

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Josef Toney is a teen killer from New Mexico who would murder two women during a robbery

According to court documents Josef Toney, who was fifteen at the time, would fatally shoot Aerial Mallam, 21, and Jessica Casaus Lucero, 31, at the Aztec Village apartments in Albuquerque New Mexico. While fleeing the scene Toney would shoot and injure a man

Josef Toney would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to forty five years in prison and must serve thirty eight years before being eligible for parole

Josef Toney Case

A judge on Wednesday sentenced 19-year-old Josef Toney to 45 years in prison in the shooting deaths of two women during a 2021 robbery.

Toney was 15 at the time he fatally shot Aerial Mallam, 21, and Jessica Lucero, 31, as Mallam’s 2-year-old daughter looked on, prosecutors said at Toney’s sentencing hearing.

Toney pleaded guilty in May to two counts of first-degree murder and armed robbery for entering a Northeast Albuquerque apartment to steal cannabis or money and killing the women.

He also pleaded guilty to aggravated battery for shooting and injuring a man in the same incident

At an emotionally charged sentencing hearing in 2nd Judicial District Court, family members said that Mallam’s daughter, now 7, still has vivid memories of her mother’s killing.

“She is deeply saddened not having her mother in her life,” Mallam’s mother, Terra Mitchell, said of Mallam’s daughter.

“My granddaughter checks every window and door, making sure they are locked and talks about her mother and cries for her mother and how much she misses her,” Mitchell said.

District Judge Courtney Weaks sentenced Toney as a serious violent offender, which requires him to serve at least 85% of his sentence — 34 years — before he is eligible for parole.

Toney also has been charged with escaping from the Youth Detention Center for about 24 hours in June. That felony charge of escape from jail remains pending.

The escape prompted prosecutors to scrap an earlier sentencing agreement that would have capped Toney’s sentence at a maximum 34 years in prison.

Prosecutor Jordan Machin asked the judge to sentence Toney to 81 years in prison.

“He took the lives of two beautiful mothers,” Machin said. “Actions speak louder than words. He’s only sorry now because he’s looking at 81 years.”

In a rambling five-minute statement, Toney apologized to the victims’ families and said he has come to understand that his actions were wrong.

“It took a lot of time and a lot of me learning about real-life situations, like reading the news and reading books and truly understanding that life is a precious thing,” Toney said.

Toney’s attorney, Stephanie Gulley, argued that Toney grew up without parental supervision from the time he was a young child.

Toney “was left to his own devices from the age of 1,” Gulley told the judge. “He stole, he fought, he begged for food.”

Gulley told Weaks that Toney will be released from prison one day and needs treatment and medication and argued for a shorter sentence.

“This is what we see when we don’t take care of children — when they grow up fending for themselves,” said Gulley, referring to a pre-sentence report prepared for the court.

Weaks said during sentencing that she recognized that Toney was only 15 at the time of the killings.

“I think we can all agree that that is not a man — that is still a child,” Weaks said. “The court will treat him as a serious violent offender, but let’s be clear that he was still a child.”

Weaks also said she was struck by the profound grief of family members struggling with the loss of the slain women.

“This community is plagued by people that are of the age of Mr. Toney who are involved in these orchestrated drug robberies,” Weaks said. “And it results in the … loss of life of individuals on a regular and consistent basis.”

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Tyler And Eli Chaffin Murder William Johnson

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Brothers Tyler and Eli Chaffin are killers from New Mexico who would be convicted of the murder of William Johnson.

According to court documents Tyler and Eli Chaffin would drive up to the home of William Johnson and proceeded to shoot and kill William Johnson. The murder would be caught on surveillance camera posted on a neighbors home. Eli would claim that he had shot William in self defense however William was shot in the back

Tyler and Eli Chaffin would be arrested and charged with murder

Before their trial began the two brothers would plead guilty. Tyler Chaffin would plead guilty to second degree murder and would be sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Eli Chaffin would plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter and would be sentenced to six years in prison.

The family of murder victim William Johnson were not happy with the plea deal and claimed that authorities were paid off and the family was not told about the plea deal.

Tyler And Eli Chaffin Case

A New Mexico judge sentenced two brothers in a 2022 murder after an argument over a car.

Court records show 25-year-old Tyler Chaffin pleaded no contest to second-degree murder while 21-year-old Eli Chaffin pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of 37-year-old William Johnson. The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a home shortly after noon on July 24, 2022, for a gunshot victim. When they arrived, they found Johnson dead.

Witnesses told deputies they saw a white SUV pull up to the home and two men get out and shoot Johnson to death. Detectives obtained surveillance video from a neighbor’s home that corroborated testimony about the SUV and linked the vehicle to the Chaffin brothers, deputies said. Prosecutors charged the brothers with first-degree murder. In addition, cops arrested 23-year-old Sierra Collins with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. She was previously in a relationship with Johnson and owned the car the Chaffin brothers were looking at, according to deputies.

Prosecutors and the Chaffins came to a plea deal to lower the charges to second-degree murder for Tyler and involuntary manslaughter for Eli. Judge Curtis Gurley sentenced Tyler Chaffin to 15 years in prison and the younger Chaffin to six years behind bars. Both will be under probation for two years after their release. According to a courtroom report from the Tri-County Record, the plea deals upset Johnson’s family who accused the San Juan County Prosecutor’s Office of accepting money to accept the plea.

“When you shoot someone in the back, I don’t know how you get more intentional than that,” the victim’s mother, Penny Johnson Jones reportedly said.

Johnson’s former wife Lacey Dillingham reportedly said the deals were “a slap in all of our faces” and “outrageous.”

“These pleas were offered to Tyler and Eli without the family’s consent, without telling anyone,” she said, according to the outlet.

Judge Curtis Gurley reportedly said there was nothing untoward about the plea agreements and any suggestion that the deals involved money was “uncalled for.”

“I am sorry you feel that way, but I can assure you nothing like that took place,” Gurley reportedly said.

Eli Chaffin claimed he shot Johnson in self-defense. He said he was in the car when he heard a gunshot and he saw Johnson reaching for a firearm so he shot him.

One of the Johnson family members flipped off deputies after leaving the courthouse, the Record reported.

Collins’ case remains ongoing. She has a court hearing scheduled for Monday.

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Nathaniel Jouett New Mexico Library Shooting

Nathaniel Jouett was a sixteen year old when he would walk into a New Mexico library and open fire killing two librarians

According to court documents Nathaniel Jouett would steal two guns from his father’s safe, left a suicide note and would walk to a library in Clovis New Mexico where he would open fire killing two libraries and injure four other people.

When Nathaniel Jouett father discovered the suicide note and his missing guns would immediately call the police however it was to late to prevent the shooting

Nathaniel Jouett would be sentenced to life in prison

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Nathaniel Jouett is incarcerate at Lea County Correctional Facility

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Nathaniel Jouett is serving a life sentence

Nathaniel Jouett Case

Two life sentences, plus 40 more years with the possibility of parole.

Nathaniel Jouett, 18, is sentenced to less time than what the state was asking for. The judge sentenced him to two life sentences, which will run concurrently–meaning he will serve them both at the same time.  

Jouett’s counsel was asking for only 20 years in prison with parole, claiming he was in, “Psychological turmoil, in the years leading up to the shooting,” and said his childhood was difficult. 

However, the judge ruled the lives of those he took deserved a harsher sentence. 

Back in 2017, Wanda Walters and Kristina Carter were killed, and four others, including a 10-year-old boy, were injured, when Jouett opened fire inside the Clovis-Carver Public Library.

Jouett was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility, but not guarantee, of parole.

There was a lot going into the judge’s decision. 

After the shooting, a search warrant was served, and notes outlining Jouett’s plan were found. 

In court documents, police laid out then16-year-old Jouett’s plan, naming Clovis High School as his original target before he changed his mind.

Those documents also show Jouett admitted to the shooting that he, “had been planning for a while.”

Jouett took two guns from his dad’s safe at home and wanted to, in his words, “shoot up a school and then kill himself.” Instead, he wound up at the library.

The judge today took all of this into account, plus testimony from doctors who evaluated Jouett’s mental state during and leading up to the shooting. But, the judge says Jouett acted alone and knew what he was doing. 

“What Dr. Kavanaugh testified to, is that studies have shown even the presence of peers, such as through social media, can lead to more risk-taking behaviors. Nathanial posted the photo of the backpack holding the weapons and ammunition on social media while he was in the library, with the caption, ‘It begins,’” said Judge James Hudson.

Another difficulty the judge said he faced in his decision was the fact that while a grand jury ruled to try Jouett as an adult, he could still be sentenced as a juvenile since he was 16 at the time of the shooting.  The argument that juveniles are more likely to be rehabilitated than adults is what contributed to the judge’s decision to leave a possibility for parole.  

Another stipulation the judge put into place, which is expected, is that Jouett cannot initiate contact with any of the victims or the victims’ family members.

Jouett also faces 40 additional years in prison for the injuries of the others, which will be served consecutively to his two life sentences for the two murders. 

New Mexico does not have capital punishment. It was abolished there in 2009.

https://www.myhighplains.com/news/new-mexico/nathaniel-jouett-sentenced-to-life-for-clovis-library-shooting/

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John Hovey Murders Parents

John Hovey was a sixteen year old from New Mexico who would murder his parents

According to court documents John Hovey would go into his parents bedroom while they were sleeping and would open fire killing his father Raymond Hovey instantly and his mother Nancy Hovey would take awhile to die from her injuries. Nancy would tell police that her son was responsible for the shooting before she died from being shot five times

John Hovey would be arrested and convicted and sentenced to two life sentences without parole

Years after being convicted John Hovey believed that a paraplegic inmate was talking to the guards about him so Hovey would stab him over two hundred times causing his death. John would receive yet another life sentence ensuring he will die behind bars

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John Hovey is incarcerated within the New Mexico Correctional Department. For whatever the reason his exact facility is not available

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John Hovey is serving three life sentences

John Hovey Case

A man serving three consecutive life sentences for murder asked a judge Monday to bring him back to New Mexico from a Florida prison where he says he’s been treated inhumanely.

John Hovey, 34, was sentenced to life in prison by a Valencia County jury in July, 2000, for killing a fellow inmate, Tim Lucero, at the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Los Lunas. Testimony at Hovey’s trial revealed Hovey and another inmate stabbed Lucero over 230 times while Lucero was sitting in his wheelchair in his prison cell.

Hovey, who, at the time of Lucero’s murder, was serving two life sentences for killing his parents in Albuquerque almost 20 years ago,, testified Monday he was not receiving proper psychological treatment in the Florida prison system.

District Court Judge John Pope didn’t make a decision Monday as to whether he’ll bring Hovey back to New Mexico. After hearing Hovey testify about Florida’s alleged prison conditions, Pope said he would take the matter under advisement for 10 days.

“Mr. Hovey isn’t my concern,” Pope said. “I have no sympathy for him. He does not have a right to say where he’s going, but I do want to make sure he’s not subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. I don’t want an inmate or guard killed because he (Hovey) gets depressed.”

Hovey, who didn’t testify at his own trial, took the stand and described the lack of medical and psychological treatment he’s received after his 2000 conviction. He testified he has been transported 11 different times to several New Mexico prisons as well as several prisons in Texas and Arizona and three prisons in Florida.

Hovey said he’s being housed in “close management” (solitary confinement) and only gets to see a doctor once a month for two or three minutes at a time. He said he isn’t offered psychological treatment in the Florida prison because he’s from New Mexico.

“All the time I was there, I was only treated twice,” Hovey said. He also testified that, because he is in “close management,” he’s not allowed his eye glasses, letters, books or attorney/client interaction and is kept in an unventilated cell without air conditioning. He also testified he’s not allowed an am/fm radio or television set and is only allowed one hour of recreation per week.

“I was never given a reason why I was sent to Florida,” Hovey said. “They (corrections officials) told me different lies. They first said New Mexico sent me to Florida for my own protection, and then they said I was a threat to New Mexico.

“This has messed me up quite a bit,” Hovey said. “I’m worse than I was before.”

Under cross examination, Hovey told Deputy District Attorney Ron Lopez that he was wrongfully convicted of killing his parents in 1984. He told Lopez he didn’t remember killing Lucero but said, after his trial in 2000, “I have no doubt I was involved.”

“I don’t agree I’m still a high security risk,” Hovey said. “I feel I’m more of a threat to myself.”

Lopez believes that the only reason Hovey wants to return to New Mexico is that if he kills again in Florida, he would be more likely to be sentenced to death.

“He shouldn’t be allowed to dictate to the state of Florida how he should be treated,” Lopez said. “He’s just not happy about being in Florida.”

Hovey’s attorney, Kari Converse, told Pope that her client’s constitutional rights are being violated in the Florida prison system. She said her client is being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.

Lopez told Pope that, if he allows Hovey to come back to New Mexico because he doesn’t like how he’s being treated, the court will be inundated with requests from everyone in prison who wants to come back to New Mexico.

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Nehemiah Griego Murders Entire Family

Nehemiah Griego was a fifteen year old from New Mexico who would murder his entire family

According to court documents Nehemiah Griego would start the massacre with his mother who was fatally shot, when his younger brother started to cry he would be fatally shot as well. Griego would murder two more of his siblings and waited for his father to come home. When he arrived he would also be fatally shot

Nehemiah was arrested and convicted

There was much debate whether Nehemiah Griego should be sentenced as a juvenile or an adult. In the end he would be sentenced as an adult and be sent to prison for life

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Nehemiah Griego is currently incarcerated at the Lea County Correctional Facility

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Nehemiah Griego is serving a life sentence

Nehemiah Griego Case

The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday has upheld the life sentence for convicted murderer Nehemiah Griego. In 2013 Griego shot and killed his parents and three younger siblings when he was 15 years old.

Griego was initially sentenced as a juvenile. However, before he got out at 21, prosecutors successfully argued that he had not been rehabilitated and was still a danger

A judge then sentenced him to a life sentence. Griego’s attorney’s appealed arguing his sentence was “cruel and unusual punishment.” The court rejected both those claims.

In 2019, a district court judge found him not amenable to treatment as a juvenile and sentenced him as an adult to the state prison system. Griego, who is now 25, will be eligible for parole when he is 52.

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/new-mexico-supreme-court-upholds-life-imprisonment-for-nehemiah-griego/

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The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday has upheld the life prison sentence of a man who was convicted of fatally shooting his parents and three younger siblings when he was a teenager.

In a dispositional order Thursday, the state’s high court rejected arguments by Nehemiah Griego that his sentence was unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment because it denied him an opportunity for treatment and rehabilitation.

Griego was 15 at the time of the 2013 killings at his family’s home in Albuquerque.

He was convicted of intentional child abuse resulting in death and two concurrent seven-year sentences for second-degree murder for his parent’s deaths.

Griego was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences with the possibility of parole after serving 30 years.

A district court judge found Griego not amendable to treatment as a juvenile and in 2019 sentenced him as an adult to the state prison system.

Now 25, Greigo will be eligible for parole when he’s 52.

In his appeal, Griego also argued his convictions should be overturned because his trial attorney was ineffective.

The court order said Griego “merely surmises his treatment will be inadequate” in prison and he “failed to establish that he does not have a ‘meaningful opportunity for release’ after serving” his sentence.

Griego’s legal team is meeting to determine the most appropriate next step in his case.

“It is easy to give up on children who commit terrible crimes and write them off as hopeless. But the truth is that these crimes are rooted in trauma and mental illness and many of the children involved can and will eventually be rehabilitated,” said Allison Jaramillo, Griego’s attorney.

“Instead of offering this chance for Nehemiah by finding his three life sentences to be cruel and unusual punishment, the Supreme Court’s decision means that he will spend his life in prison for crimes he committed as a child. New Mexico should protect children from the cruel fate Nehemiah is now facing, not give up on them,” Jaramillo added.

https://apnews.com/article/politics-new-mexico-supreme-court-albuquerque-child-abuse-fec25ffc0b34e7067728204daa55a000

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