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TOOELE — Sophia Ramirez said she lost the person who made her feel beautiful at the sentencing for the man found guilty of killing her partner, Anthony Bracamonte."I have lost my best friend, my partner and the love of my life.
But what causes the most pain is I will never get to see my child's face light up the way it did when her father walked into the room. ... Anthony was her whole world. She will never get to know how truly special her father was," Sophia Ramirez said.She said he taught her about love, family and togetherness. She said Moore didn't just take someone they loved but robbed her family of future memories.She asked for the maximum sentence, saying she does not want their daughter to need to fear that Moore will further affect her life.Alejandro Manuel Moore, 34, was sentenced on Tuesday to 16 years to life in prison for murder and six years to life for felony discharge of a firearm, first-degree felonies, in addition to one to 15 years for obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony. He was also sentenced to one year in jail for possession of a deadly weapon with intent to commit assault, and given credit for years he has already spent in jail for that year.Bracamonte, 42, of Ogden, was shot and killed in February 2023. His body was found by a driver on the west side of I-80 in Tooele about 2 miles from the turnoff to Grantsville. A jury found Moore guilty of his murder on Jan. 16 following a four-day trial.Third District Court Judge Douglas Hogan told him the offenses carry very serious penalties because of the gravity of the harm they caused."Some crimes have a path to make someone whole, fix the wrong. When a life is lost, it's impossible," he said.Hogan said sometimes the loss of life comes from a "tragic mistake," but in this case it was "deliberate.""There was time to think about and contemplate and then act," he said.Because of that, the judge said consecutive sentences best meet justice. He also said there were multiple secondary victims from people who cared about Bracamonte.Moore's attorney, Bradley Schofield, had asked for the minimum mandatory sentence, and for sentences for separate crimes to run at the same time. He said Moore had a minimal criminal record.Colleen Magee, assistant Utah attorney general, argued otherwise, saying the wounds show Bracamonte was shot from further away and then from close up. She said he could have just left him on the road without shooting him.
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