2004 Miss Venezuela Monica Spear (Photo : YouTube)
Two teenage boys were sentenced to four years in prison regarding the killing of 2014 Miss Venezuela Monica Spear and her ex-husband Henry Thomas Berry.
The teenagers, aged 15 and 17, were part of the group that included ten people who robbed and botched Spear, 29, and Berry, 39, when their car broke down on a highway outside the town of El Cambur in Venezuela in January 2014, ABC Net reported.
The 15-year-old was convicted due to resisting arrest, theft, and conspiracy while the latter was convicted of aggravated robbery. The teenagers' names were not released since they have not yet reached the legal age. The two will also be on probation for six months once they finish their jail time.
The convicts admitted that they took part in killing the couple in front of their five-year-old daughter. Spear, Berry, and their daughter were on their way back to Venezuela from a trip. A group of gunmen opened fire on their vehicle while it was being towed by a truck operator. Fortunately, the daughter was able to survive the attack but suffered from unidentified injuries.
In September 2014, three more were sentenced in connection to the slaying. 19-year-old Jean Carlos Colina was sentenced to 26 years behind bars while 18-year-old Jose Ferreira Herrera and 21-year-old Nelfrend Alvarez were sentenced to 24 years. Four more men and one woman are currently on trial.
Because of the slaying, the implementation of a nationwide anti-crime initiative was sped up by Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro. The country is the second most violent nation and has the second-highest homicide rate in the world, E! News reported.
Spear was only vacationing in Venezuela when the killing happened as she already lived in the United States years before the killing took place. The former actress also competed in the Miss Universe pageant in 2005.
