Woman pleads guilty in 2017 Jennifer Nevin homicide case
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A San Francisco woman has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in connection with the 2017 beating and shooting death of a Tuscaloosa woman.
Vida Milagro Confetti Duenas, 25, pleaded guilty on Aug. 31 in Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court to one count of capital murder during the kidnapping of Jennifer Raven Nevin, according to a Tuesday news release from Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.
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“Ms. Confetti-Duenas gave no regard to the life of Jennifer Nevin when she willfullyparticipated in the kidnapping and violent murder of her victim... She will pay for her crimes by serving a sentence of life without parole,” Marshall said.
She was one of three people charged in Nevin's death.
On Wednesday, Vida Milagro Confetti Duenas, 25 of San Francisco plead guilty in Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court to one count of capital murder during the course of kidnapping her victim, Nevin, said Attorney General Steve Marshall in a press release sent to media outlets.
Confetti-Duenas, along with co-defendants Koran Rashad Lewis and Kendrick Ky’Andre Marshall, were accused of killing Nevin, a 23-year-old mother who was found shot to death in an area off Watermelon Road in Tuscaloosa County.
Prosecutors say that on July 15, 2017, Confetti-Duenas, Lewis and Marshall attended a party in Cottondale, which Nevin also attended.
Investigators with the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit believe that the suspects thought Nevin was involved in a plot to rob them earlier in the evening. Investigators say the group later drove Nevin to the rural area, where she was taken out of the car and assaulted. Nevin was struck and kicked repeatedly and shot four times, investigators said. Her body was found two days later.
The suspects were each taken into custody by the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office on July 18, 2017, and charged with capital murder during the course of first-degree kidnapping.
Confetti-Duenas was released on bond in 2018.
The case was investigated by the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office and prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Criminal Trials Division.
The cases against Lewis and Marshall remain pending in Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court.
This article originally appeared on The Tuscaloosa News: Woman pleads guilty in 2017 Tuscaloosa homicide case, Jennifer Nevin
