WASHINGTON — Nearly 10 years after a woman was shot and killed in D.C., her killer has been sentenced to prison.
Marvin Lopez will spend 50 years behind bars for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Evelyn Yamileth Arroyo Guerra, on Christmas Eve 2014. The sentence was handed down on Friday.
According to evidence presented during an eight-day trial last year, a pair of DC Police lieutenants were driving south on 14th Street when they heard gunshots. Witnesses pointed the officers in the direction the shooter had run. One of the officers chased after the man but lost him in a wooded area at the end of Shepherd Street Northwest. The other officer found Guerra shot in the chest, and with a graze wound to her head. She had been shot while arriving for a shift as a waitress at El Sabor Latino restaurant.
Two witnesses who knew the woman told officers they had seen Lopez, the victim's recent ex, approaching her outside the restaurant moments before the killing. One witness showed police Facebook messages between Lopez and Guerra. In the messages, Lopez had threatened to kill her.
Police got an arrest warrant for Lopez the next day, but he fled the country to El Salvador. He was extradited back to the United States and arrested in March 2023.
