Victims told their stories in court
Three more guilty pleas have followed the death of Mallory Warden.
Her death resulted from a plot to steal drugs.
Robert Gabriel Shoilekov, Davonnte Lavon Brehon and Aspen Leigh Cagle pled guilty in court Wednesday July 16.
Each pled guilty to the same four charges: felony murder, attempt to commit robbery, robbery by force and armed robbery.
The court dropped all other charges against the three.
This arrangement gives them each 20 years in prison followed by 20 years on parole and a $32 per month probation fee.
The three received credit for time served for the time they have spent in jail since their arrest.
They will serve the sentences concurrently.
Their fellow defendants in this case, Madison Alina Grace Perez, Elizabeth “Rylie” Sue Henson, Gray Anthony McClure and Anthony Jared Inestruza-Whisnant have all pled guilty already.
Those who knew Mallory Warden made victim statements on her behalf.
“Did you ever see that smile that could light up a room?” her mother Jennifer Kaul asked the defendants.
She wept as she read her statement. Warden had been shot on Kaul’s birthday.
“It has been 318 days since I have seen my daughter and it’s not getting easier,” she said.
Although Mallory Warden’s sister Nataley Warden wasn’t present, she provided a statement to be read.
“I have lost not only my sister but myself,” her statement read. “I have avoided any place where I was once happy.”
Warden shared that she now has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and several other mental problems after her sister’s death.
Jaylan Dean, a close friend of Nataley Warden, also read a statement.
“I will never unhear the screams of my best friend saying, ‘My sister, my sister, they shot my sister,” Dean said.
Both Dean and Nataley Warden were in the car when Mallory Warden was shot.
The court also revealed additional circumstances surrounding her death.
Perez, Henson, McClure, Inestruza-Whisnant, Brehon, Shoilekov and Cagle worked together in a criminal enterprise, according to the indictment.
They would arrange drug deals, the prosecutor said. When someone showed up, they would steal their drugs.
Cagle invited another person to sell a number of THC vape cartridges in exchange for $1,700.
This suspect then brought the Warden sisters and Dean along with her to this deal.
THC is the primary psychoactive chemical in marijuana.
But when the girls showed up, two of the defendants walked to their jeep, pepper sprayed them and attempted to enter the vehicle to take the cartridges, the prosecutor said.
When the girls attempted to drive away, they fishtailed into the group’s vehicle.
Inestruza-Whisnant fired several shots, one of which hit Mallory Warden, the prosecutor said.
She died at the hospital.
Shoilekov said he was sorry for his actions.
“I know it probably doesn’t mean much to y’all, but I’m terribly sorry,” he said.
He added that he had written a letter to Mallory Warden’s friends and family, and was praying for them
Cagle’s lawyer said she was too emotional to speak but wanted to tell Mallory Warden’s friends and family that she was sorry for what she had done and was praying for them as well.
Before she sentenced them, Judge Brenda Weaver advised young people to stay away from drugs. The consequences can be the destruction of families, she said.
“There’s consequences to everything you do,” Weaver said. “It’s not funny, it’s tragic.”