AN ex-border patrol agent in Texas, USA, was convicted on Wednesday, 7 December, of killing four sex workers in 2018.
The New York Times reports that Juan David Ortiz (39) targeted sex workers, whom he admitted to paying and then killing.
The victims were identified as Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Anne Luera, Guiselda Alicia Cantu and Janelle Ortiz.
A jury in San Antonio heard Ortiz’s recorded confession in which he told investigators that he paid magoshas for sex and later killed them. In the confession, he referred to them as trash.
“I wanted to clean up the streets. These people… are dirt, and I was going to get rid of them. Law enforcement doesn’t do anything about them? I will. I’m sick of them,” Ortiz said in a confession.
The court heard how one victim escaped the brutal hands of Ortiz, which alerted the police in September 2018.
Yahoo reported that a woman, named Erika Pena, testified that she escaped from Ortiz’s truck as he held a gun to her head.
“Pena claimed that as she fled from the vehicle, her blouse ripped, forcing her to run topless to a state trooper at a nearby gas station to report Ortiz, who then fled from the scene. He was found and arrested the next morning,” the article read.
Following several court appearances, Ortiz was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
