Woman sentenced for killing man who infected her

Friday, April 27, 2001 | 11:55 a.m.

A Las Vegas woman who killed the man who gave her the AIDS virus was sentenced Thursday to four to 10 years in prison.

District Judge Joseph Bonaventure sentenced Evangelina Toledo under the terms reached in a plea agreement between the state and her defense attorney, the late John Fadgen.

Toledo, 53, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. She was arrested in January after her daughter came forward and told police she helped her mother bury the body of Filiberto Guzman.

Elizabeth Sanchez, 24, took police to the back yard of her former home on Stanford Street in early January and showed police where the 31-year-old man was buried in May 1999.

Investigators found his body about 2 feet underground. He was wrapped in plastic and duct tape, and an autopsy revealed he had been shot in the back.

District Attorney Stewart Bell said the plea agreement was fair because of Toledo's ill health and the fact she believed she had no choice but to shoot Guzman, who was abusive toward her.

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