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    Sterling Randall Hunt Sentenced to LWOP in 2018 AZ Murders





    County Attorney will seek first-ever death penalty


    Gila County will seek the death penalty for the first time in its history, announced District Attorney Bradley Beauchamp at a Gila County Republican Party meeting on Nov. 26.

    “It’s in response to the triple homicide in Globe on Nov. 11,” he said.

    The shooting occurred at the Jammerz Bar.

    News reports say the accused shooter, 22-year old Sterling Randall Hunt, opened fire on five people after playing pool with them.

    Authorities say Hunt lived in Globe and had no criminal record.

    Police found Hunt on the San Carlos Apache Reservation, but say he is a member of the Navajo Tribe.

    Witnesses said they saw no arguments or incidents of any kind while Hunt played pool with his victims.

    Taking a break, three of the victims, 22-year old Ashley Sanchez, 20-year old Charlene Peak and 32-year old Scott Mills went to have a smoke on the back deck of the bar. Instead of joining them, Hunt went out the front.

    He returned to the deck and opened fire with a 9 mm Glock semi-automatic revolver. Hunt’s attack seriously wounded Sanchez and Peak. Mills ran for cover, avoiding injury.

    Hunt ran into his next two victims, 44-year old Cristi Licano and 22-year old Daniel Albo as he left the scene. First responders declared both dead by the time they arrived.

    Responders flew Sanchez and Peak to trauma centers in the Valley. Four days after the shooting, Sanchez succumbed to her injuries.

    Reports say Peak remains in stable condition.

    Beauchamp told the Gila County Republicans he decided to seek the death penalty because ‘I don’t agree with three natural life sentences...you can only give one natural life sentence.’

    Beauchamp said the decision to seek the death penalty comes at a cost “That triggers a bunch of disclosure and…the defendant can have two attorneys,” he said.

    A death penalty case in Arizona not only has extra expense in the preparation phase it requires a 12-person jury to unanimously decide on a sentence of death. The State of Arizona has 10 reasons a prosecutor may seek the death penalty, including the commission of multiple homicides.

    Beauchamp told the Republicans the case has cast a pall over Globe.

    “It just a tragedy,” he said, “The atmosphere in Globe and Miami…I have never felt that in all the years I have lived there.”

    What made the crime even more tragic to Beauchamp, he knew everyone involved except for the shooter.

    “I knew the 44-year old pretty well,” he said, “I knew the younger because of coaching baseball.”

    He said his deputy would try the case.

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    County hires outside defense team for death penalty case

    By Teresa McQuerre
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    The county must contract with outside attorneys for the death penalty case in the Nov. 11 Globe triple homicide.

    The Gila County attorney’s office is seeking the death penalty for Sterling Randall Hunt, 22, in a triple homicide that took place Nov. 11 at the Jammerz Bar in Globe. The notice to seek the death penalty was filed Nov. 20.

    The notification requires the defense of the case by attorneys qualified under Rule 6.8, Arizona Rules of Criminal Procedure (extensive experience in defending capital cases), according to Jonathan Bearup, court administrator, who appeared before the Gila County Board of Supervisors at a special meeting Dec. 11.

    Bearup said the court does not currently have attorneys so qualified under contract and had to seek legal services outside of the contracted defense bar.

    Four attorneys returned the court’s request for qualifications and were subsequently graded. Michael Ziemba and Thomas Henager were selected.

    Ziemba will be lead counsel and Henager is second chair. Ziemba has nine years experience handling capital cases and Henager has three. The contract will pay Ziemba $145 per hour and Henager $105 per hour, plus cover travel expenses — both live in Maricopa County. However, all expenses must be approved Bearup’s office.

    Ziemba has worked with the Maricopa County public defender’s office since 2000; he was promoted to the capital unit of the office in 2009 as a second-chair attorney; he was promoted to first-chair attorney in 2015. In September 2018, Ziemba was awarded a contract as a lead counsel in capital cases in Maricopa County by the Maricopa County Capital Defense Review Committee; he was also appointed to the Criminal Justice Act Panel to accept federal criminal cases and has been sworn in so that he can appear and represent clients in federal district court.

    Henager has worked as a capital co-counsel since November 2015, with the majority of his capital cases being worked alongside Ziemba.

    In addition to the two attorneys, the defense team will include a paralegal, a mitigation expert and an investigator, Bearup told the supervisors.

    The defendant is accused of killing Ashley Sanchez, 22, Cristi Licano, 44, and Daniel Albo, 22.

    Licano and Albo were declared dead at the scene. Sanchez died four days after being transported to a Valley trauma center.

    News reports say the accused shooter opened fire on five people after playing pool with them.

    Authorities say Hunt lived in Globe and had no criminal record.

    Police found Hunt on the San Carlos Apache Reservation, but say he is a member of the Navajo tribe.

    Witnesses said they saw no arguments or incidents of any kind while Hunt played pool with his victims.

    Taking a break, three of the victims, Sanchez, 20-year-old Charlene Peak and 32-year-old Scott Mills went to have a smoke on the back deck of the bar. Instead of joining them, Hunt went out the front.

    He returned to the deck and opened fire with a 9 mm Glock semi-automatic pistol. Hunt’s attack seriously wounded Sanchez and Peak. Mills ran for cover, avoiding injury. Hunt also shot Licano and Albo.

    Reports say Peak remains in stable condition.

    Gila County Attorney Bradley Beauchamp, speaking at a Nov. 26 meeting of the Gila County Republicans, said he decided to seek the death penalty because “I don’t agree with three natural life sentences ... you can only give one natural life sentence.”

    Beauchamp said the decision to seek the death penalty comes at a cost. “That triggers a bunch of disclosure and ... the defendant can have two attorneys,” he said.

    A death penalty case in Arizona not only has extra expense in the preparation phase, it requires a 12-person jury to unanimously decide on a sentence of death. The state of Arizona has 10 reasons a prosecutor may seek the death penalty, including the commission of multiple homicides.

    He said this is the first time Gila County has sought the death penalty in a homicide.

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    Death penalty sought for Hunt: Trial set for 2020

    By Carol Broeder
    Arizona Silver Belt

    The trial for 22-year-old Sterling Randall Hunt, of Globe, has been set for Oct. 6, 2020, in the Division One Courtroom of Judge Bryan B. Chambers.

    Hunt is the defendant in the Nov. 11, 2018 mass shooting in downtown Globe that ultimately left three people dead and one critically injured.

    During the Dec. 17 status hearing in Globe, Chambers scheduled the next status hearing for 3:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 4.

    Designated as a complex case, the initial trial date would be set for 24 months after the Gila County Attorney’s Office gave its notice of intent to seek the death penalty for Hunt, Chambers said.

    Hunt would also be required to complete IQ tests as well as a competency exam, he said.

    Added to Hunt’s defense team a week prior, attorney Michael Ziemba provided Chambers with the defendant’s objection to the IQ, competency and sanity prescreen evaluations.

    Deputy County Attorney Bradley Soos, who is prosecuting the case, said that he had just received the documents, to which Ziemba replied that he had no objection to giving Soos 15 days to review them.

    Chambers said he would hear Ziemba’s motion at the next status hearing, giving Soos the opportunity to respond in writing.

    The judge also addressed a defense request to extend the time for filing a motion to remand the grand jury. Soos had no objection, so Chambers gave the defense team until Feb. 15 to do so.

    As for trial setting, Soos asked Chambers to set the actual trial date rather than just an initial one.

    Soos called 24 months “plenty of time, as long as we stick to the schedule.”

    Ziemba replied that he had seen “very little discovery,” and was currently “flying by the seat of [his] pants.”

    https://silverbelt.com/article/death...l-set-for-2020
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    February 12, 2021

    Life in prison for man accused in Globe bar fatal shootings

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    GLOBE, Ariz. (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting three people at a bar in Globe in 2018 has been sentenced to life in prison.

    Prosecutors said Sterling Randall Hunt reached a plea agreement in the case and was sentenced Thursday in Gila County Superior Court to three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

    Hunt was 22 years old at the time of the November 2018 shootings.

    Authorities said the victims had gone outside to smoke a cigarette when Hunt walked out of the bar and opened fire.

    They all had been playing pool before the shooting occurred.

    Globe police said a man and woman died at the scene and another female victim died several days later at the hospital.

    Hunt was later arrested on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation.

    Phoenix TV station KPHO reports that a year after the fatal shootings, the city dedicated a bench to the three victims.

    https://apnews.com/article/shootings...eec9cc27d5fc1f

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