A state judge sentenced Daniel Suarez to 12 years in prison Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Nicholas Kaye and other counts.
Suarez, 23, of Española, agreed to a deal that called for him to plead guilty to five counts in three separate incidents: Kayeâs slaying in an Española gas station parking lot in June 2018, a 2016 incident in which Suarez fired a handgun at a vehicle during a road-rage argument and a coordinated attack against two jail employees while Suarez was in custody following Kayeâs death.
Kaye, of Ohkay Owingeh, played on the Santa Fe Indian School basketball team.