Salomon Diaz, the 49-year-old Snowflake man who killed Ashley Utley, 25, and Sherry Quintero-Davenport, 45, in June of 2016 in front of the Navajo County Superior Court in Holbrook has been sentenced to 50 years behind bars. Diaz had pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and two counts of second-degree murder at the same courthouse where the tragic incident occurred. He was sentenced to 15 years in the Department of Corrections for aggravated assault and 25 years in the DOC for each count of second-degree murder, with credit for 852 days served. The sentence for aggravated assault will be run concurrently to the sentences for second-degree murder, which are to run consecutively and will followed by a term of community supervision equal to one day for every seven days served. Diaz was sentenced by Yavapai County Superior Court Judge David Mackey. The incident occurred on June 28 in 2016 following a custody issue being addressed at the courts between Diaz, the paternal grandfather of two young children and the two women killed, Utley the mother of the children and Utley’s mother Quintero-Davenport. The children’s aunt, Angela Chambers, 68, was also present and was injured by the gunfire. Attorneys in the case included Attorney Ulises Ferragut for the defendant, Public Defender Michael Shawn Penrod, Attorney Jamie Balson for the victims and Navajo County deputy attorneys K. Clint Metheney and Patrick Zinicola.
