A pair of half-brothers were sentenced in federal court Tuesday for murdering their sister, her children aged 9, 8, and 4, and her significant other in their Tijuana home in a brutal family annihilation in December 2021.
Christopher Baltezar Hernandez and Victor Armondo Aguilar were sentenced in federal court Tuesday to six consecutive life terms and 45 years, respectively.
Aguilar, of Tijuana, pleaded guilty in October 2023; Hernandez, of Fresno, California, pleaded guilty two months later, each to a single count of conspiring to murder an American citizen in a foreign country, and five counts of stalking resulting in death.
The half-brothers are U.S. citizens. Their sister and her children — identified in court documents only by their initials — were also U.S. citizens; the significant other was a Mexican national. Hernandez and their sister had the same parents; Aguilar and their sister were half-siblings.
The siblings had been involved in a bitter dispute over property prior to the murder.