A Heber City man was recently sent to prison after pleading guilty to recklessly causing the death of a 7-year-old girl by firing a gun through a wall in Wasatch County in 2021.
Christopher Robert O Connell, of Heber City, was sentenced to between one and 15 years in prison for manslaughter after he shot through a wall, killing a 7-year-old. He said he was drinking heavily and taking prescription drugs.
On Feb. 22, 2019, 17-year-old Sierra Valdespino came home from work, immediately walked into her bathroom and began washing her mouth. Now 20, she recalls rinsing repeatedly and scrubbing her lips and tongue trying to rid herself of any reminder of an unwanted kiss. “Your body is supposed to be your own, yet this person had just taken a piece of my body, and he forever has that piece,” she …