One of five people involved with a double homicide on Safari Drive in St. Joseph was sentenced Monday.

According to online court records, Luis Omar Robles-Vargas was sentenced to 16 years in prison for second-degree murder in the July 2016 shooting deaths of 22-year-old Kevilee Villegas-Melendez and 25-year-old Raymond Gonzalez Ortiz. Robles-Vargas pleaded guilty on January 18th.

As previously reported, according to court documents, all five of the defendants were in the area of Lion Rd. and Safari Dr. and had a loaded firearm at the time multiple rounds were fired from several weapons striking and causing the death of Villegas-Melendez and Ortiz.