Man gets another life sentence for deadly 2006 crime spree

By Dave Toplikar

Published Wednesday, May 26, 2010 | 2:57 p.m.

Updated Wednesday, May 26, 2010 | 5:05 p.m.

A man involved in a deadly crime spree that preyed on Las Vegas Hispanic laborers during the summer of 2006 received multiple consecutive sentences that add up to 126 years on top of a life sentence today in Clark County District Court.

Eugene Nunnery, 30, Los Angeles, was sentenced to life without parole in the shooting death of one of his three victims, Antonio Perez-Martinez, 42, plus several other consecutive sentences for felonies involved in that Sept. 16, 2006, robbery and shooting.

Nunnery, who is from Los Angeles, was among four men arrested in 2006 after a crime spree of robberies, home invasions and shootings that lasted about a month and a half in Las Vegas and North Las Vegas.

Police said Nunnery told them that his group targeted Hispanics for the robberies mainly because they were less likely to report the crimes to police. Prosecutors said that in total, he tried to kill at least 11 people and committed several robberies and at least one home invasion.

Judge Donald Mosley asked Nunnery if he had anything to say before sentencing, to which Nunnery loudly said "no."

Mosley told Nunnery he found his actions to be "one of the most heinous things" he had seen his 32 years on the bench.

"In all candor I see no redeeming aspect in any of this," Mosley said. "... Mr. Nunnery, not to be discourteous to you, but you just executed people. Your reasons are obscure, if they exist at all ... It makes no sense to me at all."

Nunnery will be taken back to Ely State Prison, where he is in maximum security on death row, awaiting an appeal for the death sentence handed down by a jury for the shooting death of Saul Nunez Suastegui in September 2006.

The life sentence Nunnery received in the Perez-Martinez case would run consecutively to the life sentence he received for the murder of Raphael Alfred in August 2006, according to his attorney, Deputy Special Public Defender Ivette Maningo.

Nunnery also received the maximum sentences on the the other counts involved in Perez-Martinez's case today, which will all run one after the other, Maningo said.

Besides the two life sentences and the death penalty, Nunnery also has other sentences, which, combined with today's sentence total about 270 years, all to run one after the other, Maningo said.

Although the death penalty case is on appeal, Maningo said she has not yet decided whether to appeal his second life sentence.

Maningo said there is still one 2006 robbery case still pending for Nunnery, but no trial date has been set.