After two days of deliberations, the jury held a 28-year-old man responsible for the shocking crime in February of 2016, when six members of his own extended family were found murdered in their Gage Park home.
Ramos told the jury Uribe made a 10- and 13-year-old search through the house for valuables. When they found none, she said Uribe stabbed them to death as well.
The boys' father, Armando Cruz, told reporters,"I ultimately want to remember my family with love not sadness."The girlfriend's testimony was important to give the jury context, Lanier said,"to tell them what was going on inside that house and give them some possible motive for what happened." Uribe's defense attorneys don’t dispute that Uribe was there but maintain that the family was instead killed by four masked men who came to their home on the 5700 block of South California to rob them.
But prosecutors said Uribe played upon his family’s trust. That’s why, even though there were six people who could have overpowered him, no one stepped up to stop him.Defense attorneys did not talk to reporters after the verdict but did vow to appeal the jury’s decision in a hearing that has been scheduled for Nov. 2.