Guillermo William Herrera was found guilty last month of killing the couple’s son the night of their 2021 wedding
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- Guillermo William Herrera was found guilty last month of shooting and killing a married couple’s son on the night of their 2021 wedding
- The deadly shooting took place in the parking lot outside of the couple’s wedding celebration
- Herrera and two other men had been asked to leave after crashing the wedding and later waited outside before a confrontation took place
A Utah man crashed a couple’s wedding, got into an argument with partygoers and then shot and killed the newlyweds’ son as he tried to fight him.
The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office announced that Guillermo William Herrera was found guilty by a jury of first-degree felony murder on Aug. 22, in connection with the Nov. 6, 2021 shooting death of Oscar Avila Jr. at his parents’ wedding.
Prosecutors said in a news release that Herrera, 23, and two other men allegedly associated with the Dogtown gang had crashed the Avilas’ wedding celebration that night and got into an argument with partygoers after “friends and family of the couple confronted the codefendants and ordered them to leave.”…