Three months after a Gaithersburg man was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the June 2017 murders of two Northwest High School seniors, the trial of three other men accused in the killings is underway this week in Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville.
With Judge David A. Boynton presiding, Assistant State’s Attorney Jessica Hall during Friday’s opening statements accused the three men of ambushing and executing Northwest seniors Shadi Ali Najjar, 17, and Artem Ziberov, 18.
“These boys were lured to Gallery Court, they were ambushed, and they were executed,” Hall said. “Those were the actions of four men—these three men and another. The men who executed and slaughtered these two boys are Edgar Garcia-Gaona, sitting in the back, Roger Garcia, in front of him, and Rony A. Galicia, sitting over here, and a man named Jose Canales-Yanez.”
According to Montgomery County police, at about 10:25 p.m. on June 5, 2017, Najjar and Ziberov were shot to death in Najjar’s blue Honda Civic while parked in a remote residential area in the 8200 block of Gallery Court in Montgomery Village. In all, between 30 and 31 rounds were fired at the two teens, who were pronounced dead by police at the scene, according to Hall.
Jose “O” Ovilson Canales-Yanez, 26, of Gaithersburg, was found guilty in January of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, along with other charges, for what prosecutors described as execution-style killings...
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