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SALT LAKE CITY — A man convicted last month of aggravated murder in the 2012 shooting death of a Poplar Grove neighborhood smoke shop employee was sentenced to life in prison Monday.
Last month, a jury deliberated nine hours before finding Yelfris Sosa-Hurtado, 28, guilty of aggravated murder, a first-degree felony, and nine counts of discharge of a firearm, a third-degree felony, in the death of Steven Guadalupe Chavez, 26.
Prosecutors said Sosa-Hurtado shot and killed Chavez during an argument that started when Chavez's father asked him to move his car that was blocking his parking spot and Sosa-Hurtado refused.
Sosa-Hurtado was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his murder conviction. The judge also sentenced Sosa-Hurtado to serve additional prison time for the first count of discharge of a firearm once the life sentence expires.
In November, co-defendant Vladimir Suarez-Campos, 40, accused of driving Sosa-Hurtado to and from CJ's Smoke Shop, 876 W. 800 South, pleaded guilty to reduced charges of manslaughter, eight counts of felony discharge of a firearm, and obstruction of justice. He is scheduled to be sentenced in February.
