An 18-year-old defendant was sentenced Tuesday to life in jail for a double-fatal taking pictures of teenage brothers in Lakewood.
Marqueil Banks, 18, shot Damian Wikoff and Dillon Wikoff, 18 and 17 respectively, in 2020 in a theft involving the promoting of firearms, in line with the Jefferson County District Lawyer’s Workplace. Banks, a 16-year-old on the time of the taking pictures, was convicted in March as an grownup by a Jefferson County jury of first-degree homicide. His sentence contains the potential of parole after 40 years in jail.
On Aug. 23, 2020, Damien and Dillon organized to promote a “home made ghost gun” assembled from a package bought on-line, in line with a DA’s workplace information launch. As an alternative, a co-defendant, Michael Mendoza, now 20, recruited a bunch of juveniles to rob the pair. Throughout the theft, the brothers have been shot by Banks.
Banks is the final of 4 defendants to be sentenced within the case.
Mendoza, who was 17 on the time of the taking pictures, pled responsible, as an grownup on Jan. 31, 2022, to aggravated manslaughter and manslaughter. He was sentenced on April 27 to twenty years in jail as a part of a plea discount.
In Might of 2021, a juvenile within the case, 15 on the time of the incident, pled responsible to conspiracy to commit aggravated theft and was sentenced to 2 years of juvenile supervised probation.
In April of 2022, one other juvenile within the case, 15 on the time of the crime, pled responsible to first-degree homicide and was sentenced to 4 years within the Division of Youth Providers.
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