A jury convicted a security guard of first-degree murder Thursday after police in southwest Colorado found a decapitated woman’s severed hand in his pocket, according to reports.
Solomon Martinez, 27, was declared guilty of “first-degree murder after deliberation, tampering with a deceased human body, and abuse of a corpse” — each charge a felony — after a 14-day trial, according to the Pueblo District Attorney’s Office. The court sentenced Martinez to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the murder of the victim, identified by the office as Renee Portillos.
The Pueblo Police Department said its officers arrested Martinez for first-degree murder after they found a dead woman’s body in Fountain Creek on Jan. 10, 2024, in what already was the fourth homicide in the city that year, according to police.
Martinez, who worked for a private security…
