Mercedes Vega's alleged murderer was able to face the death penalty

Prosecutors officially seek the death penalty for Sencere Hayes, the man who is accused of kidnapping and shot Mercedes Vega Back in 2023.

According to reports, he left her in a burning car along the I-10 and Tonopah to die.

What we know:

According to a recent court hearing in court, the state was based on the cruelty of Vega's death and its spoiled motif of the removal of witnesses.

Vega's parents say that it is as if a weight was lifted from her shoulders. For months they have been relentlessly pursuing justice in their daughter's brutal murder.

The 22 -year -old Vega was last seen in her parking garage in Tempe Apartment in April 2023. Her family said she was kidnapped, hit her head and forced it into a car.

Her body was later found by the highway in a burned -out car.

The medical examiner's report showed that it had been shot, had bleaching average in her throat and died of smoke injection.

In his intention of applying for the death penalty, Maricopa County's public prosecutor says that it intends to show evidence of vegas emotional and physical suffering in her last moments, and that Hayes Vega has killed it in order to state it in a legal proceedings.

Court documents show that Vega was on the list of witness before her death.

What's next:

Hayes has not guilty because of the first degree murder. His next hearing will take place on June 3.

If he is convicted and the death penalty belongs to the death penalty under one of the youngest in Arizona's death cell.

What you say:

In an explanation of Fox 10, Mercedes 'family' family said: “Everyone who knows that we have been waiting for justice in the case of Mercedes, and we are so grateful that the state has decided to make it a priority and to ensure that she receives justice that she deserves such a woman, and I have the feeling that we have a weight that we deal with the judicial confidence. Maricopa is the Sheriffs Office of the Maricopa district and the state of Arizona.

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