SALT LAKE CITY — A man charged with killing his ex-girlfriend, well-known Hispanic radio host Gabriela Sifuentes Castilla — known to the public as Gaby Ramos — is scheduled to face trial next year for the killing.
In a hearing on Monday, Manuel Omar Burciaga-Perea, 38, was scheduled for a four-day trial beginning on May 5, 2026.
Prosecutors say he shot and killed his former girlfriend, 38-year-old Sifuentes Castilla, in the doorway of her home in October 2021. Charges against Buciaga-Perea were filed in November 2021, but his initial hearing did not happen until June 2023 — after he was arrested in Mexico and eventually extradited…