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OGDEN, Utah (AP) -- Prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty for a man charged with two counts of aggravated murder in a 2007 gang-related Ogden shooting.
Riqo Perea is charged in the Aug. 5, 2007, shooting at a wedding party. Two people, 22-year-old Sabrina Prieto and 29-year-old Resendo Nava Nevarez, died and two were injured in a northern Ogden neighborhood.
Jury selection in the trial for 22-year-old Perea was to begin Tuesday.
Second District Judge Ernie Jones says prosecutors are expected to amend the charges Perea faces to murder. Those charges carry a possible sentence of 15 years to life in prison instead of the possibility of the death penalty, life without parole or life with possible parole.
Perea also is charged with two counts of first-degree felony attempted murder.
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Information from: Standard-Examiner
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