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A suspected gunman in the 2017 roadside executions of two Colorado Springs teenagers could be paroled after serving a fraction of his 30-year prison sentence.
Marco Garcia-Bravo, 24, who was moved Thursday from the El Paso County jail into Colorado Department of Corrections custody, already has a parole hearing set in October 2031, state prison records show.
Credit for participating in rehabilitative programs is likely to move that date up, even by years, allowing a potential release in well under a decade, legal experts say.
“There’s the caveat and it’s huge that the parole board doesn’t have to say yes,” said retired Denver criminal defense attorney Phil Cherner, who isn’t involved in the case. Prisoners who are denied parole must wait a certain interval, sometimes a year or more, before re-applying. And with bad behavior, they could be required to serve up to 100% of their sentences, making it impossible to predict individual outcomes.
Plea deal accepted: Marco Garcia-Bravo sentenced for killings of Coronado High School teens thedenverchannel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thedenverchannel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The names Natalie and Derek are carved into two crosses at the scene of a double murder on Old Pueblo Road, south of Fountain. About 70 solar lights light up the location where Coronado High School students Natalie Cano-Partida and Derek Greer were shot repeatedly execution style March 11, 2017. The photo was taken in March 2018.
JERILEE BENNETT, THE GAZETTE File
Plea agreement nets 30 years for final suspect after Colorado Springs teens’ deaths
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) Marco Garcia-Bravo, one of multiple people accused in the plot that resulted in the execution-style deaths of two Colorado Springs teens, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after a plea agreement was accepted Monday morning.
Prosecutors had said Garcia-Bravo was one of the alleged shooters who killed Natalie Partida and Derek Greer back in 2017 along a rural road south of Colorado Springs.
When Garcia-Bravo was put to trial earlier this year, a jury wasn t able to return verdicts on multiple charges of murder and kidnapping. During that trial, he was found guilty of accessory to crime.