Prosecutors in Arizona said they plan to seek the death penalty if two men are convicted in the brutal murder of an exotic dancer in 2023.
In court filings, prosecutors with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said Wednesday that Cudjoe Young, 29, and Sencere Hayes, 23, acted in an “especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner” in the killing of Mercedes Vega, 22.
Officials allege in the filings that the men murdered Vega “to prevent her cooperation with an official law enforcement investigation, to prevent her testimony in a court proceeding, or in retaliation for her cooperation with an official law enforcement investigation.”…