MURRIETA (CNS) – A 35-year-old Arizona woman who fatally shot another woman without provocation at an Indio motel was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
A Murrieta jury in March deliberated one day before finding Carla Sharese Flores guilty in the death of 27-year-old Ashley Brito of Thousand Palms in 2021.
Flores was originally charged with murder, but jurors convicted her of the lesser count of voluntary manslaughter, along with a sentence-enhancing allegation of using a firearm in the commission of a felony…