LAS VEGAS — A man convicted of fatally shooting two Bay Area women near the Las Vegas Strip almost eight years ago has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Omar Talley, 38, was sentenced Tuesday after a judge reprimanded him for his lack of remorse, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Talley’s defense attorney argued that his client had apologized to the victims’ families, but Talley interrupted him to again state that he only expressed his “condolences” and claimed he was not involved in the killings, the newspaper reported.
Talley was convicted in October of two counts of murder with a deadly weapon and one count of attempted murder.
Talley initially faced the death penalty in the case, but prosecutors withdrew the possibility of capital punishment before his trial began, court records show.
He was accused of killing Melissa Yvette Mendoza and Jennifer Margarita Chicas, both 27, and wounding Chicas’ brother-in-law, Jerraud Jackson, in February 2016.