OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — The 18-year-old accused of going on a shooting spree across Osceola County in 2013, killing two people and riddling dozens of homes with bullet holes, pleaded guilty in court Friday.
Konrad Schafer, who was 15 years old at the time of the crime, will learn his fate in April but will likely spend at least 40 years in prison.
Schafer, now 18, was allegedly the mastermind behind a plan that left David Guerrero, 17, and Eric Roopnarine, 22, dead.
“It’s essentially the same thing that we would have gotten had he gone to trial and been convicted,” said State Attorney Jeff Ashton.
Ashton said he will argue for a double life sentence, even though Schafer was a juvenile when the shooting happened.
“When you have two murders as brutal and completely senseless as these were, I just think that’s the sentence we ought to be arguing,” said Ashton.
Wrapping up Schafer’s case leaves Victoria Rios as the fourth and final of the friends who allegedly went on the deadly shooting spree, to get a day in court.
Schafer will be subpoenaed to testify against her.
Schafer’s case is one of the first in Florida where a juvenile is facing first-degree murder charges under new guidelines put in place earlier this year.
The new guidelines guarantees him a review hearing in what could be 15 years.
At most, he would get one in 25 years.
“It’s new, and we don’t really know how it’s going to be interpreted in the future,” said Ashton.
Whatever the judge decides the punishment should be, another judge will have the opportunity to set Schafer free.
The same could be true for Rios.
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