Wilmer Romero, photo by Fayette County Detention Center, and is a public record.
The mugshot? That’s the most recent of four mugshots for young Mr Romero, who has a listed birthday of September 6, 2005, and is listed as being 5’4″ tall (64″) and weighing 130 lb. His stay in jail might wind up on the unpleasant side.
Teenager arrested in connection to Lexington shooting that left an 18-year-old dead
by Christopher Leach | Thursday, May 9, 2024 | 10:31 AM EDT
The Lexington Police Department has arrested an 18-year-old man in connection to a deadly shooting that left another 18-year-old man dead.
Wilmer Romero has been charged with murder in connection to the shooting. Police said Romero also faces unrelated charges of contempt of court, tampering with prison monitoring device, trafficking a controlled substance and trafficking marijuana.
Tampering with a prison monitoring device means that he was wearing an ankle monitor, and this already out on bail or on probation for a previous offense. It wopuld appear that his prior arrests didn’t teach him anything. Mr Romero is being held in lieu of a $750,000 bond, but it would be pretty foolish to grant bail to a suspect who was already wearing an ankle monitor that he is charged with attempting to disable. Under KRS §431.066(2) the court may consider whether the defendant is “a flight risk, is unlikely to appear for trial, or is likely to be a danger to the public if released.” Mr Romero is already accused of being a danger to the public while on bail!
The shooting happened in the early morning hours of April 4 on the 400 block of Carlisle Avenue. Dennis Trujillo Jr. was declared dead on scene from multiple gunshot wounds.
Officers found Trujillo unresponsive in the front room of a home lying next to a cell phone. Court documents say investigators found a conversation between Trujillo and Romero that happened seconds to minutes before the shooting, and Romero asked where Trujillo was in a threatening manner.
Later on in the investigation, detectives found additional communications where Romero admits to killing Trujillo, according to court documents.
There’s a little more at the original.
Under KRS §507.020, murder is a capital offense in Kentucky. Under KRS §532.030, the punishment for a capital offense shall be:
- death; or
- imprisonment for life without benefit of probation or parole; or
- imprisonment for life without benefit of probation or parole until he has served a minimum of twenty-five (25) years of his sentence; or
- imprisonment for not less than twenty (20) years nor more than fifty (50) years.
This sad sack, if he is actually guilty of the murder of Mr Trujillo — and he is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty — is going to spend the rest of his youth behind bars, at the very minimum. Personally, I would vote for the second option, life without parole, though, if the Lexington Police have developed a solid case against him, I would assume that his attorney will be shopping for a plea bargain, one I hope that he does not receive, other than life without parole to avoid the possibility of a capital sentence. Murderers should not be released until their victims return to life.
There are 26 people under capital sentences in the Bluegrass State, but there have been only three executions in Kentucky since the restoration of capital punishment in 1976, in 1997, 1999, and 2008, and in the last two, the condemned men voluntarily dropped all of their appeals, just to get it all over. Capital sentences are pretty much a waste of time and effort here.
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I would suggest implementing a Canadian-style voluntary MAID program for prisoners, but as usual, I simply don’t trust the scumbags drawn to public administration. I assume they would immediately set about working to try and pervert it into a tool for euthanizing straight white male Christians.
Canada MAID program: Medical Assistance in Dying.
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I am strongly opposed to capital punishment, and consider a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole to be a fate worse than death. However, if a prison had a voluntary suicide by hanging room, with nooses permanently attached to the ceiling, that becomes the prisoner’s choice.