“All of this was over a gun,” Elijah Robinson’s father, Jonathan Robinson said. “Something that cost a few hundred dollars. Now, my son is gone forever.”
of two teenage boys found shot to death in a northwest Indiana home.
A Lake County jury found Alvino S. "Vino" Amaya, 37, guilty of two counts of murder and a firearm enhancement last month in the slayings of 18-year-old Elijah Robinson and Maxwell Kroll, 17. Prosecutors said the teens were slain execution-style on Oct. 16, 2020, in a residence near Griffith as Amaya was searching for a missing handgun.
Judge Salvador Vasquez said Amaya’s character showed he was "horribly violent." He knew the sentence meant Amaya would die in prison.
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