A man convicted of fatally shooting two Northern California women near the Las Vegas Strip nearly eight years ago has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Omar Talley, 38, was sentenced Tuesday after being reprimanded by a judge for his lack of remorse, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
According to the newspaper, Talley’s lawyer claimed his client had apologized to the victim’s family, but Talley interrupted, saying he was only expressing “condolences” and had no involvement in the killing. He again insisted that he had not.
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Talley was found guilty in October of two counts of murder with a deadly weapon and one count of attempted murder.
Omar Talley, convicted of the Las Vegas Strip shootings, is escorted from his sentencing hearing in Las Vegas on Tuesday, January 30, 2024. (BizIif Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal, via AP)
According to court records, Talley initially faced the death penalty in the case, but prosecutors withdrew the possibility of the death penalty before the trial began.
He is accused of killing Melissa Yvette Mendoza and Jennifer Margarita Chicas, both 27, and injuring Chicas’ brother-in-law Jerod Jackson in February 2016.
Relatives said the victims were in Las Vegas for a family celebration. Jackson survived the shooting and testified against Talley.
According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the victims got into an argument with Talley in a parking lot on the west side of the Strip, and shots were fired.
Chicas and Mendoza, both from the San Francisco Bay Area, died from gunshot wounds to the chest, police said.
According to the arrest report, Talley told police he had been drinking and smoking marijuana the night of the shooting, but that he had little recollection of what happened.
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According to court documents, Talley was sentenced to a Nevada prison in 2010 for felony child molestation and child abuse convictions and was released on parole in 2015.
