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NM man pleads guilty to killing nun on Navajo reservation
Updated: 2:08 PM MDT Apr 5, 2013
A New Mexico man has acknowledged he beat a nun to death with a flashlight during a break-in at her home on the Navajo Indian Reservation.Reehahlio Carroll pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Friday in federal court in Albuquerque for the 2009 killing of 64-year-old Sister Marguerite Bartz. She served at St. Berard Catholic Church in the community of Navajo in northwestern New Mexico.A judge accepted the plea but formal sentencing still needs to be scheduled. Carroll faces 40 years in prison without parole. He could have received a mandatory life term if convicted of the original charges that included first-degree murder.Prosecutors say Carroll broke into the nun's trailer home and attacked her when she confronted him. He was 18 at the time.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —
A New Mexico man has acknowledged he beat a nun to death with a flashlight during a break-in at her home on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
Reehahlio Carroll pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Friday in federal court in Albuquerque for the 2009 killing of 64-year-old Sister Marguerite Bartz. She served at St. Berard Catholic Church in the community of Navajo in northwestern New Mexico.
A judge accepted the plea but formal sentencing still needs to be scheduled. Carroll faces 40 years in prison without parole. He could have received a mandatory life term if convicted of the original charges that included first-degree murder.
Prosecutors say Carroll broke into the nun's trailer home and attacked her when she confronted him. He was 18 at the time.
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