The Wisconsin man who pleaded guilty to murdering his father and stepmother will spend the rest of his days behind bars. Records show Jesus V. Medrano III, 27, received his sentence in a Kenosha County courtroom on Monday.
Documents obtained by Law&Crime show that officers received a call to the 900 block of 46th Street in the city of Kenosha on Jan. 6, 2021. They found two living minors, one of whom was injured with blood and having redness and scratch marks on her neck from the defendant choking her.
The slain victims, Jesus Medrano II, 49, and Latrice Meyers-Medrano, 26, were dead in a bedroom, slashed to death.
Jesus Medrano III murdered his father, Jesus Medrano II, and stepmother, Latrice Meyers-Medrano, authorities said. (Mug shot: Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department)
It was a grisly scene. Even before finding the bodies, police noted blood had pooled on the floor and was all over the walls.
Officers ultimately tracked down the suspect, Medrano III, to a home several streets away. A resident had described someone banging at their door.
Cops noted fresh foot tracks in the snow at the west side of that yard. They found a storm door to be ajar, as well as a cellar door. Cops found that cellar door unlocked. They checked inside to find a bloodied Medrano III sitting on the step, his back to the door. He was a holding a machete in his right hand.
“Just kill me,” he told officers.
They said he ultimately dropped the weapon, and they arrested him without incident.
During questioning that day, he admitted to groping his teenage stepsister as she slept and to bringing a machete into the room in case his father stepped inside and confronted him.
He attacked the girl by touching her in her buttocks area and intending to touch her breasts, and then tried to stuff a pair of rolled-up socks in her mouth when she said she was going to tell her mom. The girl tried to fight off her stepbrother, but he put his hands around her neck, strangling her. Medrano II arrived in the bedroom, cellphone light on because it was dark in the home. He asked what was going on.
“Nothing,” the defendant said. But Medrano III grabbed his machete, and stabbed his father in the stomach. He stabbed his father again. Then his stepmother arrived
The defendant said he jumped over his father to get at her, but accidentally stabbed himself in his left thigh. Ultimately, he stabbed Meyers-Medrano in the torso, he said. He said then fled out the home.
Medrano III pleaded guilty on Sept. 22 to first-degree intentional homicide and attempted first-degree sexual assault while using a dangerous weapon. The court dropped charges of first-degree intentional homicide and child abuse with a high probability of great harm.
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