Las Vegas teen Jonathan Martinez-Garcia, 17, has been given up to 40 years behind bars for a savage attack on his teacher where he raped and strangled her before trying to slash her wrists.
Martinez-Garcia smirked at his sentencing Wednesday as the court heard in detail how he ambushed his teacher by asking if he could speak to her about his grades after class at El Dorado High School in April 2022.
Martinez-Garcia waited until the victim’s back was turned before trying to choke her with a ‘rope or string.’ He then slammed her head against a table, knocking her unconscious.
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When she awoke, her pants and underwear had been pulled down. Martinez-Garcia poured something over her and told her he would set her on fire. He then pushed a bookshelf onto the victim and then sat on it.
The victim, identified only as Sade, told the judge that she believed she would die during the attack, which left her covered in bruises. During the sentencing hearing, Sade said she had been ‘imprisoned’ mentally and physically.
‘It only makes sense that he too should be in prison for as long as possible,’ she said, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Martinez-Garcia was sentenced after pleading guilty to attempted murder, attempted sexual assault, and battery with the use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm that left his victim with trauma and multiple injuries.
Clark County District Court Judge Kathleen Delaney sentenced Martinez-Garcia to a minimum of 16 years behind bars, rising to a maximum term of 40 years, the Associated Press reported.
Prosecutors asked the judge for a minimum of 22 to 55 years behind bars. But in her sentencing, Judge Delaney said she was ‘balancing the seriousness of the crime with other factors.’
The attack occurred after Martinez-Garcia went to his teacher’s classroom after school hours to discuss his grades.
Police said he locked the classroom door before he viciously beat her.
The teacher told cops she asked Martinez-Garcia why he was assaulting her, and he responded that he ‘didn’t like teachers’ and was ‘getting revenge.’
During the attack, Martinez-Garcia attempted to slit the teacher’s wrists and told her, ‘Can’t you die already?’
He initially told cops he ‘blacked out’ and didn’t remember the attack, but later admitted he remembered trying to choke her and conceded he had raped her.
Sade recounted: ‘He beat my body so badly that I couldn’t fight.’
‘One of the times I woke, I found myself trapped under heavy shelves that he toppled over me to where my breathing was suppressed, and I was being crushed to near death,’ she recalled.
‘I truly believed with everything in me that I was going to die under those shelves.’
Sade’s mother told the judge that her daughter used to be a gregarious woman who came from a family of educators and had moved to Vegas to begin her first teaching job.
But since the attack, she has had difficulty leaving her home because of ongoing physical and mental health complications.
‘For the rest of her life, her last memory of teaching is going to be this student trying to kill her,’ Sade’s mother told the judge.
17-year-old Jonathan Martinez Garcia was sentenced to between 16 and 40 years in prison on Wednesday for attacking a former Eldorado High School teacher last year. https://t.co/eZUgviTOyF
— Las Vegas Review-Journal (@reviewjournal) June 28, 2023
It was an emotional day in court as 17-year-old Jonathan Martinez Garcia learned his fate, in the attack of an El Dorado High School teacher last April.https://t.co/2zGfOrqCZD
— 8 News Now (@8NewsNow) June 29, 2023
Martinez-Garcia fled after the attack and took the teacher’s keys. The instructor was later found by a school employee who called 911. Martinez-Garcia was arrested shortly after by school police while he was on his way to an award ceremony at the school.
In the arrest report, Martinez-Garcia talked about the attack on his teacher with detectives and said:
‘I don’t know why I attacked her; she was good to me.’
In April, Martinez-Garcia got a plea deal that avoided trial in the after-school attack after he pled guilty to attempted sexual assault and battery with the use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm.
He told the courtroom he blames no one but himself and said that he was ready to ‘accept the consequences,’ KSNV reported.
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His lawyer Gaston said Martinez-Garcia’s erratic behavior resulted from the side effects of an asthma medication he was on that caused hallucinations, mood changes, and night terrors, the Review-Journal reported.
Chief Deputy District Attorney William Rowles said Wednesday that he does not believe the side effect of the medication was a valid reason for the attack.
‘I firmly believe that there are still certain crimes and still certain conduct that requires a punitive punishment,’ he said.
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