Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Man gets life in ax attack that killed baby

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Steve Marcus

Harold Montague, accused of an assault with a medieval-style battle ax that killed a baby, appears for an arraignment hearing at the Regional Justice Center, Wednesday, March 3, 2010.

A 38-year-old Las Vegas man has been ordered to life in prison without the possibility of parole for hacking a 4-month-old baby to death with a medieval-style battle ax and critically wounding the child's mother.

Harold Eugene Montague was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty but mentally ill in May to first-degree murder with a deadly weapon, attempted murder and battery on a police officer.

Damian Avila Castro was killed, and his mother, Sandra Castro, was gravely injured in the random, February 2010 sidewalk attack. The mother had been pushing her baby in a stroller and headed to the store.

Montague also stabbed his disabled sister-in-law, Monica O'Dazier, multiple times inside their home before bursting outside.

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