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« Sign of what's ahead? Celona now in R.I. prison | Today | Tonight: Tourzilla stomps into Providence » October 1, 2007Man sentenced in Central Falls triple slayingA Pawtucket man was sentenced to two consecutive life prison sentences today for the murder of his estranged girlfriend, her new boyfriend and her daughter. Adelino Duarte, 40, formerly of 659 Main St., admitted to killing estranged girlfriend Elizabeth Orellana, her boyfriend and her daughter in Central Falls in August 2006, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch's office announced. Duarte will serve at least 40 years before parole eligibility. “In the matter of a chilling few short minutes, this enraged defendant destroyed two families and made orphans out of Elizabeth Orellana’s four surviving children,” Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch said in the statement. “As appropriate as Judge Krause’s sentence is, today’s sentencing only ends the legal aspects of this brutal multiple homicide. Elizabeth’s survivors will be in our thoughts and prayers as they must contend with a much more difficult sentence — a life without their mom.” Duarte pleaded guilty to four of the seven counts for which he was indicted in December 2006: three counts of murder and one count of discharging a firearm while committing a crime of violence, death resulting. -- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney In exchange for the plea and the two consecutive life sentences, the state dismissed one count of breaking and entering and merged two additional charges of discharging a firearm while committing a crime of violence, death resulting, into the gun charge to which Duarte pleaded. Prosecutors Maureen Keough and Daniel Guglielmo would have presented at trial that on Aug. 18, 2006, between 1 and 2 a.m., Duarte went to the home of Elizabeth Orellana at 712 High St. in Central Falls. He had shared the second-floor apartment with Orellana and her five children until about one to two months before the crimes. Duarte went into the apartment, found Orellana’s two 16-year-old daughters in the living room. The girls saw him carrying a gun, later found to be a 0.25-caliber Raven Firearm handgun. Duarte found Orellana with her new boyfriend, Octavio Calcagno. The two girls ran to different rooms, tried to call for help. Duarte shot Orellana and Calcagno each one time in the head at close range. A third daughter, Kristal Duarte, believed to have been asleep in a second bedroom when the incident started, encountered Duarte in the living room. She was shot once in the head. Central Falls police responded within minutes of the shooting and found Duarte with the gun in the apartment. Posted by Mike McKinney CommentsPost a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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