Louie Ganzie gets life, Horne will stand trial for murder

Three high profile cases were heard today in the Supreme Court. Convicted murderer Louis “Louie Ganzie” Gentle was sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Troadio Gonzalez. Earlier this month, the thirty year old was found guilty of killing the mother of two of his children, Takeisha Sutherland. On January third, Sutherland was stabbed twenty-one times with a knife and then left to die in front of her children on floor of her home. Throughout his trial, Gentle denied committing the act.

Today Justice Troadio Gonzalez also sentenced twenty-one year old Alex Bautista, who pled guilty to Manslaughter and Arson last Wednesday, to twenty-five years behind bars on the first count and eight years for the second. The sentences are to run concurrently. Bautista was charged with the October 2006 murder of Gerson Hernandez who was killed and then his body was set afire inside his apartment building on Victoria Street.

Meanwhile, accused killer Ryan Horne was today found mentally fit to stand trial for murder. The decision starkly contradicts testimony from psychiatrist Claudina Cayetano who examined the accused and maintained that he suffers from acute psychiatric disorder which renders him mentally incompetent. Following the determination by the jury, Justice Adolph Lucas ruled that Horne will be prosecuted for the stabbing murders of Sandra and Rosa Esquivel in the January session of the Supreme Court. The women were each stabbed multiple times last May near their apartment at the corner of Dean Street and Euphrates Avenue. Residents in the area managed to detain a blood covered Horne until the police arrived.