Alfonso Sanchez was convicted by a Bucks County jury on Monday, May 1, of first-degree murder for the slaying of a man and woman inside a Warminster Township apartment on October 16, 2007.
The 41-year-old from Philadelphia gunned down Lisa Diaz, 27, and Mendez Thomas, 22, inside the Bucks Landing apartments. During the rampage, Sanchez also attempted to kill a third victim, who used her body to shield her toddler son from the violence.
In his closing arguments at the trial on Friday, District Attorney Matt Weintraub said the surviving victim has always maintained since the very beginning of the investigation that Sanchez was responsible for the attack that claimed the life of her sister and boyfriend.
“She told us who the murderer is: His name is Alfonso,” Weintraub said, playing the 911 call where she repeats the statement to a dispatcher.
On the night in question, Sanchez and two other men – Steven Miranda and Alex Martinez – went to Thomas’s apartment under the ruse that they wanted to buy marijuana from him.
When the three men arrived, Lisa Diaz was inside watching her sister’s two young children.
Thomas and his girlfriend were at a neighbor’s house at the time and arrived a few minutes later.
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