2 security guards sentenced in death of Ogden nightclub patron left in street

  • Two Ogden security guards were sentenced for their roles in a 2025 incident outside a nightclub that left a man dead.
  • Jeison Gomez Diaz received up to five years imprisonment and Martin Esparza Espinoza got probation and credit for 364 days served.
  • The man died after he was left in the middle of a street and hit by a car.

OGDEN — Two security guards charged in the 2025 death of a nightclub patron left in a busy Ogden street after an altercation have been sentenced, one getting prison time, the other getting probation on top of jail time he had already served.

A third man involved was sentenced last March in the case, which led to the death of the nightclub patron after a car struck and killed him in the street where he was left.

Judge Rueben Renstrom on Thursday sentenced Jeison Gomez Diaz, 41, to zero to five years in prison on a count of manslaughter, a third-degree felony. The incident took place on Feb. 23, 2025, outside an Ogden nightclub where Gomez, Martin Esparza Espinoza and Jose Higinio Garcia Jimenez were working as security guards…

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