Photo Courtesy Of Lopez FamilyBy Brody Levesque (Washington DC) May 13 | Puerto Rican media outlet Primera Hora reported yesterday, that Juan José Martínez Matos, who had been scheduled to go on trial next Monday, May 17th for the November murder of 19 year old confessed to the crime during a hearing in Caguas on Wednesday.
Primera Hora staff writer Mariana Cobián wrote that Prosecutors contend Martínez stabbed López to death before he decapitated, dismembered and partially burned his body before dumping it along a remote roadside near Cayey on Nov. 12, 2009. Martínez plead guilty, telling senior Judge Miriam Camila Jusino that he fully understood the consequences of his actions, whereupon she immediately sentenced him to 99 years in prison.
Speaking to reporters gathered outside the courtroom afterward, Lopez-Mercado's mother said;
"We are able to find a bit of peace in this aspect, but it still not going to return Steven," she said. "But at least there is justice in Puerto Rico."
Puerto Rican LGBT activist Pedro Julio Serrano told journalists that "today is a little justice for a loved one who did not deserve this end, it was agreed with everything that was as a human being." He added that there was no need to add the item was a hate crime because it was given the maximum sentence in this case but "we have no doubt it was a hate crime."
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