A 23-year-old man convicted of killing four people in a 2022 domestic violence shooting in Aurora was sentenced Tuesday by the Colorado Department of Corrections to four life sentences.
Joseph Mario Castorena was found guilty in May by an Arapahoe County jury of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder for breaking into his wife’s home in the early hours of Oct. 30, 2022. ex-girlfriend, and murdered her family when they got home.
Castorena was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences plus 24 years in prison for the deaths of Jesus Serrano, 51; Maria Anita Serrano, 22; Kenneth Eugene Green Luque, 20; and Rudolfo Salgado Perez, 49.
Maria Serrano was the woman’s sister, according to previous reports. Jesus Serrano was Maria’s father and Kenneth Luque was Maria’s husband. Salgado Perez rented an RV on the property and was killed when he emerged during the shooting.
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