Paula Gutierrez, 26, Learns Her Fate - Life in Prison June 23, 2004: Paula Gutierrez, the Bay area woman whose boyfriend shot and killed a Tampa Police Officer, learned her fate. She will spend the rest of her life in prison for her role in the shooting death of Lois Marrero. The 19-year Tampa Police Department veteran was gunned down following a bank robbery on July 6, 2001. |
New Litigation in Paula Gutierrez Case Focuses on Police Choppers May 23: Lois Marrero's family is fighting back. They plan on suing the city for what they call a disregard of officers' safety. Their attorney Richard Hirsch talked about the day Marrero was shot and killed while chasing Gutierrez's boyfriend, Nestor DeJesus. "The observer and other members of the flight crew went to lunch," said Hirsch. "There had been a birthday party." That left only one police chopper pilot in the sky to relay information about suspects on the ground to other officers giving chase. In their complaint to the city, the attorneys say the City of Tampa was "reckless and had a willful disregard for the safety of its officers." They say chopper pilots have to focus on flying, not observing, and absence of an observer in the chopper may have contributed to Lois Marrero's death. |
Tampa Tribune Daily Updates Paula Gutierrez Murder Trial The Tampa Tribune daily updates and synopsis of the events and testionony that occured during the Paula Gutierrez murder trial. For May 15th through May 23. |
Gutierrez Guilty On All Counts May 22: A Tampa jury has convicted a 25-year-old Paula Gutierrez on all three counts she was facing, including first-degree murder of a Tampa police officer, even though her boyfriend who fired the fatal shots. The other two counts are burglary of a dwelling and armed robbery. Gutierrez appeared disconsolate and put her head down on a table when the verdict was read, and her mother broke down and had to be removed from the courtroom. Gutierrez faces life in prison when she is sentenced June 23rd. Post includes a Tampa Bay 10 WTSP video clip of news report and Tampa Bay 10 WTSP, Bay News 9 and Tampa Tribune news articles. |
Images Of Past Hold Gutierrez's Future May 21: Jurors will retire to a the jury room to decide Paula Gutierrez's fate. They will have trays loaded with evidence to look over, including: A form Gutierrez signed when she bought a 9 mm MAC-11 handgun for her boyfriend, Nestor DeJesus. A bundle of red-stained cash DeJesus took from the Bank of America, he and Gutierrez are accused of robbing July 6, 2001. And the gun. Gutierrez Had No Choice, Psychiatrist Says May 20: Michael Maher, a forensic psychiatrist testified that Paula Gutierrez believed she had no choice but to follow her boyfriend's every demand. The psychiatrist defense witness, said Gutierrez suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder. |
Jury Hears Gutierrez's Flower Shop Holdup Confession May 17: Jurors heard surprise evidence that Paula Gutierrez and her boyfriend robbed a Tampa flower shop three days before robbing a bank. The unexpected revelation came from Gutierrez in a taped confession she gave to police about the holdup of the Flowers by Patricia store. |
Testimony Paints DeJesus As Demon May 15: Jurors in the Paula Gutierrez murder trial were shown a haunting self portrait of the man she says manipulated her into robbing a bank before he shot Tampa police Officer Lois Marrero. Using a software program, Nestor DeJesus had superimposed his face on a picture of the devil. In the picture, DeJesus, surrounded by flames, has red glowing eyes, red horns and a red shirt. [Nestor DeJesus picture of himself as a devil. Tampa Tribune Photo to Right >] |
Gutierrez Describes Relationship May 14: Paula Gutierrez detailed her twisted teenage relationship with the man who the defense says intimidated her into helping him rob a bank and being present when he killed a police officer. She testified. He choked her in front of a Chinese video rental store. At a subway station, threw beer bottles at her. He slapped her because she caressed his face too hard. He screamed at her parents and told them she was a slut. Recorded Gutierrez Admission Is Played May 14: Prosecutors played Gutierrez's taped confession during the fourth day of testimony in her first-degree murder trial of Tampa police Officer Lois Marrero. |
Witness Claims No Signs of Abuse During Standoff May 12: In a surveillance video played at the murder trial of Paula Gutierrez, Isaac Davis, who was held hostage, can be seen just to the left of Nester DeJesus, the man that killed Tampa Police officer Lois Marrero. Davis took the stand and talked of his ordeal, "I was like, please don't hurt me, please don't kill me," Davis testified. "He [DeJesus] goes, we're not going to hurt you." Prosecutor Jay Pruner inquired about Gutierrez's demeanor during the standoff with police. Since much of her defense focuses on the idea that she was afraid of DeJesus and went on the crime spree against her will. But, in his testimony, Davis offered little, if any, information that would back up defense claims that Gutierrez felt threatened. |
Tampa Tribune Daily Updates Paula Gutierrez Murder Trial The Tampa Tribune is posting daily updates and a synopsis of the events and testionony that occured during the Gutierrez murder trial. May 12: *Lengthy Questioning Gutierrez's Frst Cnfession: *Blood Found On Gutierrez Shirt: *Gutierrez Describes Shooting: *Gutierrez Tape Played: *Confession Tape To Be Played *Hostage Recounts Ordeal: *Jurors Shown Photographs Bloody Radio * Juror Fauls to Show. [May 12, 2002: Day 6] |
Nester DeJesus Final Moments, On Camera May 10: Police secretly recorded DeJesus' last minutes alive using a telephone with a miniature camera hidden in its base. They had set the phone, for negotiating, outside the apartment where DeJesus and Gutierrez allegedly had taken a hostage right after Marrero's slaying July 6, 2001. His life-size image played on a giant screen television parked in front of 12 jurors. The police surveillance tape had recorded DeJesus talking about robbing a bank with his girlfriend, shooting and killing Tampa police Officer Lois Marrero and killing himself. He committed suicide on camera. Some of the 12 jurors were visibly shaken by the images. One female juror bunched up in a ball, trembled and wiped away a tear. |
Tampa Tribune Daily Updates Paula Gutierrez Murder Trial The Tampa Tribune is posting daily updates and a synopsis of the events and testionony that occured during the Gutierrez murder trial. May 9: The Final Moments, On Camera ~ Surveillance Video Shows Final Moments Of Standoff ~ Surveillance Video Inside Apartment To Be Released ~ Hostage Negotiation Tape Released ~ Gun Costs ~ The Shootout ~ Officer Cradles Marrero's Head ~ Policemen Wait To Testify ~ Officer Searches For Suspected Cop Killer ~ Officer Under Fire ~ Total Wound Description ~Path Of Bullet ~ Gutierrez Comes Into Court [May 9th ~ Day 5] [Photo Credit: Tampa Tribune] |
Tampa Tribune Daily Updates Paula Gutierrez Murder Trial The Tampa Tribune is posting daily updates and a synopsis of the events and testionony that occured during each day of Gutierrez murder trial. Starting with Jury Selection ~ Defense Strategy? ~ Judge Rules On Criminal Record ~ Potential Jurors Answer Questions ~ The Jury is Seated ~ Opening Statements Begin ~ Bank Robbery Witnesses Testify ~ Jury Listens to Marrero On Dispatch Tape ~ DeJesus's Mother Testifies ~ Girl Testifies About Shooting ~ 911 Call Reports Shooting & Much More. [May 5th - 8th: Days 1 ~ 4]. |
Tears Flow At Gutierrez Trial May 9: Paula Gutierrez stared at the center of the courtroom, her face emotionless during the second day of her first-degree murder trial Thursday. The most moving testimony came from witnesses who said they saw Gutierrez's boyfriend, Nester DeJesus, shoot and kill Tampa police Officer Lois Marrero. Gutierrez's attorney cried while listening to a police recording of Marrero's last radio transmission. On the tape, Marrero described DeJesus pointing a gun at her. A teen witness cried on the stand as she described seeing Officer Marrero bleed to death. A veteran officer cried as he described kneeling next to Marrero's body. |
Tampa Policewoman's Dying Moments Come To Light As Murder Trial Begins May 8: The two women who were closest to slain Tampa police Officer Lois Marrero sat in separate rows. Marrero's domestic partner, Tampa police Officer Mickie Mashburn, sat in the front row. Marrero's sister, Brenda Marrero, sat in the second row. Both shared a moment of pain and realization Wednesday as public defender DeeAnn Athan, in her opening statements in Paula Gutierrez's trial on charges of first- degree murder, robbery and burglary, described Marrero's last moments. Athan told the jurors that after Nester DeJesus shot Marrero, Gutierrez watched the veteran police officer begin to fall. Marrero and Gutierrez locked eyes. Athan, speaking for her client, said that Marrero seemed to ask ``Why?'' with her eyes. |
Trial Under Way In Officer's Slaying May 7: Police Officer Mickie Mashburn sat in the courtroom's front row, she was in court for her slain domestic partner, police Officer Lois Marrero. Mickie said she wants Gutierrez, 25, to be convicted and serve life in prison. She knows that Gutierrez didn't shoot Marrero. She also knows accusation: Gutierrez took part in a bank robbery and during getaway, Gutierrez's boyfriend, Nester DeJesus, shot and killed her life partner Lois M. Marrero, who was only 40 years old. [Mickie Mashburn (Photo Left) Credit ~ Bay News 9.] |
"Paula Gutierrez Murder Trial" Bay News 9 News Articles: *May 6: Jury Selection in Trial of Alleged Cop Killer Continues in Hillsborough County. *May 5: Domestic Partner of Slain Tampa Police Officer Calls Gutierrez Trial Justice. *May 5: Jury Selection Underway for Woman Charged With the Murder of a Tampa Police Officer. *May 4: Paula Gutierrez, 25, Set to Stand Trial for Murder of Tampa Police Officer. |
"Till Death Do Us Part" by Mickie Mashburn ~ Advocate Feb. 19, 2002 Lois Marrero and I met in 1986 while working at the Tampa police department. Lois had been an officer for four years, and I was a new recruit. Initially Lois and I were just friends. I admired her because she was so very passionate about life. Eventually she and I fell in love and realized we were soul mates. One day in 1990 I asked her, "Would you consider spending the rest of your life with me?" She told me, "I would like that very much." Lois moved in, and on May 25, 1991, we held a commitment ceremony at the Metropolitan Community Church in St. Petersburg. That was the happiest day of my life. I know she felt the same way. For more than 10 years we were inseparable, then came July 6, 2001. *Related Advocate August 28, 2001 News Article: "In The Line of Fire". |
"Eye on Mickie Mashburn News Archives" *September 6, 2001: Mickie Mashburn Sets Precedent Seeks Pension. *August 30, 2001: Sister Says She Took Nothing From Marrero's Home On Day Of Funeral. *August 30, 2001: Tampa City Council Holds Domestic Partners Pension Benefits Meeting. *August 3, 2001: Benefit Concert in Memory of Lois Marrero and for Mickie Mashburn. *July 20, 2001: Crime Victim Fund $ 25,000 to Mickie Mashburn. *July 20, 2001: Feeling Heat Tampa Council Form Committee Explore Same-Sex Partners Benefits. |
Mickie Mashburn's loving Partner of 10 years, Lois M. Marrero, was killed in the in the line of Duty, on July 6, 2001. Coping with such great loss, Mickie's handed another loss, the loss to the right to receive her partners pension benefits. The Tampa Fire and Police Pension Board, voted 7~1 to deny Mickie spousal death benefits of slain partner. As Mickie's co-workers, neighbors and family testified, the board members did little to feign interest. One board member fell asleep, while, board attorney, James Loper, who presented arguments against Mashburn's case during the hearing, passed a note commenting on the repetitive testimony of the witnesses. Once those who testified that Lois would have wanted Mickie to receive her pension benefits. Telling the board, if Lois was given a choice to who to leave her pension, "It would have been Mickie." What would have made the board's denial moot, was prevented by a bureaucratic mistake. Lois was not permitted to choose Mickie as beneficiary, but, the state Legislature passed a law in 1999 saying pension members could choose their beneficiary. It was not until July 3, 2001, the city approved the ordinance. Tragically, just three days later Lois was killed, without being able to exercise her right. Mickie, although at the brink of exhaustion from this ordeal, she hasn't given up hope and intends to continue her efforts. And she has the support of the gay and straight community. TBC, our members and many others will do what ever it takes to achieve justice for our sister, Mickie. [Photo Credits to the St Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune. ] |
"Op-Ed: 9-11 Mychal Judge Law Comes Up Short" By Karen Doering Esq. July 16, 2002: One year ago, Tampa Officer Lois Marrero was killed in the line of duty leaving behind colleagues, friends, family and a life partner of 11 years, Officer Mickie Mashburn. Lois' death brought not only grief, but the sad realization that the life she and Mickie shared for more than a decade was of no legal consequence. Mickie would not receive the pension benefits due a survivor. At a time of her deepest grief, Mickie's world has become a maze of paperwork, legal battles and conflict. |
A Year Cannot Heal Slain Officer's Partner & Family Mickie Mashburn remains undeterred, Karen Doering said, "She knows she and Lois were life partners, soul mates up to the day Lois died. Mickie will do whatever it takes to honor Lois' memory by trying to change the laws." A Memorial Services held to honor and remember Lois, killed in the line of duty on July 6, 2001. Mickie Mashburn, Marrero's live-in girlfriend, is also a Tampa police officer, continues to fight for her life partner, Lois Marrero's pension benefits. Bay News 9: "July 6th, 7th & 8th, 20021" News Articles. |
Lois M. Marrero City of Tampa Police Officer Killed in the Line of Duty on July 6, 2001 |
Tampa Bay Coalition did not wish to turn our Tribute & Memorial to Lois M. Marrero and Her Life Partner Mickie Mashburn, into any platform that would not show the proper respect that they both deserve. So, this section was created for posting the News Articles and Related Items, on Mickie Mashburn's struggle to receive, her life partners survivors benefits and the murder trial of Paula Gutierrez, Nester DeJesus's accompliace, in the tragic murder of our dear Lois. |
A Year Cannot Heal Slain Officer's Partner & Family Mickie Mashburn remains undeterred, Karen Doering said, "She knows she and Lois were life partners, soul mates up to the day Lois died. Mickie will do whatever it takes to honor Lois' memory by trying to change the laws." A Memorial Services held to honor and remember Lois, killed in the line of duty on July 6, 2001. Mickie Mashburn, Marrero's live-in girlfriend, is also a Tampa police officer, continues to fight for her life partner, Lois Marrero's pension benefits. Bay News 9: "July 6th, 7th & 8th, 20021" News Articles. |
"Op-Ed: 9-11 Mychal Judge Law Comes Up Short" By Karen Doering Esq. July 16, 2002: One year ago, Tampa Officer Lois Marrero was killed in the line of duty leaving behind colleagues, friends, family and a life partner of 11 years, Officer Mickie Mashburn. Lois' death brought not only grief, but the sad realization that the life she and Mickie shared for more than a decade was of no legal consequence. Mickie would not receive the pension benefits due a survivor. At a time of her deepest grief, Mickie's world has become a maze of paperwork, legal battles and conflict. |
Mickie Mashburn's loving Partner of 10 years, Lois M. Marrero, was killed in the in the line of Duty, on July 6, 2001. Coping with such great loss, Mickie's handed another loss, the loss to the right to receive her partners pension benefits. The Tampa Fire and Police Pension Board, voted 7~1 to deny Mickie spousal death benefits of slain partner. As Mickie's co-workers, neighbors and family testified, the board members did little to feign interest. One board member fell asleep, while, board attorney, James Loper, who presented arguments against Mashburn's case during the hearing, passed a note commenting on the repetitive testimony of the witnesses. Once those who testified that Lois would have wanted Mickie to receive her pension benefits. Telling the board, if Lois was given a choice to who to leave her pension, "It would have been Mickie." What would have made the board's denial moot, was prevented by a bureaucratic mistake. Lois was not permitted to choose Mickie as beneficiary, but, the state Legislature passed a law in 1999 saying pension members could choose their beneficiary. It was not until July 3, 2001, the city approved the ordinance. Tragically, just three days later Lois was killed, without being able to exercise her right. Mickie, although at the brink of exhaustion from this ordeal, she hasn't given up hope and intends to continue her efforts. And she has the support of the gay and straight community. TBC, our members and many others will do what ever it takes to achieve justice for our sister, Mickie. [Photo Credits to the St Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune. ] |
Fire & Police Board Denies Pension for Slain Officer's Partner |
Mickie Mashburn, at the Fire and Police Pension Board. Mickie is tired & exhausted, but, still not giving up. [Photo Left] Board members woke up in time to vote to deny Mickie spousal death benefits of slain partner. [Photo Right] |
"Eye on Mickie Mashburn News Archives" *September 6, 2001: Mickie Mashburn Sets Precedent Seeks Pension. *August 30, 2001: Sister Says She Took Nothing From Marrero's Home On Day Of Funeral. *August 30, 2001: Tampa City Council Holds Domestic Partners Pension Benefits Meeting. *August 3, 2001: Benefit Concert in Memory of Lois Marrero and for Mickie Mashburn. *July 20, 2001: Crime Victim Fund $ 25,000 to Mickie Mashburn. *July 20, 2001: Feeling Heat Tampa Council Form Committee Explore Same-Sex Partners Benefits. |
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Mickie Mashburn City of Tampa Police Officer Life Partner, Lois Marrero Killed July 6, 2001 |
The Murder Trial of Paula Gutierrez, Girlfriend and Accomplice of Nester DeJesus. |
Mickie Mashburn [Photo Advocate] |
"Till Death Do Us Part" by Mickie Mashburn ~ Advocate Feb. 19, 2002 Lois Marrero and I met in 1986 while working at the Tampa police department. Lois had been an officer for four years, and I was a new recruit. Initially Lois and I were just friends. I admired her because she was so very passionate about life. Eventually she and I fell in love and realized we were soul mates. One day in 1990 I asked her, "Would you consider spending the rest of your life with me?" She told me, "I would like that very much." Lois moved in, and on May 25, 1991, we held a commitment ceremony at the Metropolitan Community Church in St. Petersburg. That was the happiest day of my life. I know she felt the same way. For more than 10 years we were inseparable, then came July 6, 2001. *Related Advocate August 28, 2001 News Article: "In The Line of Fire". |
Paula Gutierrez, [Left] is on trial for first-degree murder, in the shooting death of City of Tampa Police Officer Lois M. Marrero, [Center]. Gutierrez, was the girlfriend of Nester DeJesus, [Right]. Officer Lois Marrero, encountered the pair on July 6, 2001, shortly after they allegedly robbed the Bank of America building on S. Church Ave. in Tampa. DeJesus shot Lois and she died at the scene. From there they fled into a nearby apartment complex where they took a man hostage. DeJesus killed himself following a three-hour standoff and Gutierrez was arrested. Even though Gutierrez, did not shot Lois, she is still considered an accomplice and an active participant in the murder and thus, is on trial for the murder. Gutierrez, is facing burglary and armed robbery charges in addition to the murder charge and could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted. |
"Paula Gutierrez Murder Trial" Bay News 9 News Articles: *May 6: Jury Selection in Trial of Alleged Cop Killer Continues in Hillsborough County. *May 5: Domestic Partner of Slain Tampa Police Officer Calls Gutierrez Trial Justice. *May 5: Jury Selection Underway for Woman Charged With the Murder of a Tampa Police Officer. *May 4: Paula Gutierrez, 25, Set to Stand Trial for Murder of Tampa Police Officer. |
Trial Under Way In Officer's Slaying May 7: Police Officer Mickie Mashburn sat in the courtroom's front row, she was in court for her slain domestic partner, police Officer Lois Marrero. Mickie said she wants Gutierrez, 25, to be convicted and serve life in prison. She knows that Gutierrez didn't shoot Marrero. She also knows accusation: Gutierrez took part in a bank robbery and during getaway, Gutierrez's boyfriend, Nester DeJesus, shot and killed her life partner Lois M. Marrero, who was only 40 years old. [Mickie Mashburn (Photo Left) Credit ~ Bay News 9.] |
Tampa Policewoman's Dying Moments Come To Light As Murder Trial Begins May 8: The two women who were closest to slain Tampa police Officer Lois Marrero sat in separate rows. Marrero's domestic partner, Tampa police Officer Mickie Mashburn, sat in the front row. Marrero's sister, Brenda Marrero, sat in the second row. Both shared a moment of pain and realization Wednesday as public defender DeeAnn Athan, in her opening statements in Paula Gutierrez's trial on charges of first- degree murder, robbery and burglary, described Marrero's last moments. Athan told the jurors that after Nester DeJesus shot Marrero, Gutierrez watched the veteran police officer begin to fall. Marrero and Gutierrez locked eyes. Athan, speaking for her client, said that Marrero seemed to ask ``Why?'' with her eyes. |
Tears Flow At Gutierrez Trial May 9: Paula Gutierrez stared at the center of the courtroom, her face emotionless during the second day of her first-degree murder trial Thursday. The most moving testimony came from witnesses who said they saw Gutierrez's boyfriend, Nester DeJesus, shoot and kill Tampa police Officer Lois Marrero. Gutierrez's attorney cried while listening to a police recording of Marrero's last radio transmission. On the tape, Marrero described DeJesus pointing a gun at her. A teen witness cried on the stand as she described seeing Officer Marrero bleed to death. A veteran officer cried as he described kneeling next to Marrero's body. |
Officer risks own life to remain by Lois's side. |
Tampa Tribune Daily Updates Paula Gutierrez Murder Trial The Tampa Tribune is posting daily updates and a synopsis of the events and testionony that occured during each day of Gutierrez murder trial. Starting with Jury Selection ~ Defense Strategy? ~ Judge Rules On Criminal Record ~ Potential Jurors Answer Questions ~ The Jury is Seated ~ Opening Statements Begin ~ Bank Robbery Witnesses Testify ~ Jury Listens to Marrero On Dispatch Tape ~ DeJesus's Mother Testifies ~ Girl Testifies About Shooting ~ 911 Call Reports Shooting & Much More. [May 5th - 8th: Days 1 ~ 4]. |
Tampa Tribune Daily Updates Paula Gutierrez Murder Trial The Tampa Tribune is posting daily updates and a synopsis of the events and testionony that occured during the Gutierrez murder trial. May 9: The Final Moments, On Camera ~ Surveillance Video Shows Final Moments Of Standoff ~ Surveillance Video Inside Apartment To Be Released ~ Hostage Negotiation Tape Released ~ Gun Costs ~ The Shootout ~ Officer Cradles Marrero's Head ~ Policemen Wait To Testify ~ Officer Searches For Suspected Cop Killer ~ Officer Under Fire ~ Total Wound Description ~Path Of Bullet ~ Gutierrez Comes Into Court [May 9th ~ Day 5] [Photo Credit: Tampa Tribune] |
Jurors see video of Nester DeJesus minutes before he pulled the trigger of the gun he held under his chin. |
Nester DeJesus Final Moments, On Camera May 10: Police secretly recorded DeJesus' last minutes alive using a telephone with a miniature camera hidden in its base. They had set the phone, for negotiating, outside the apartment where DeJesus and Gutierrez allegedly had taken a hostage right after Marrero's slaying July 6, 2001. His life-size image played on a giant screen television parked in front of 12 jurors. The police surveillance tape had recorded DeJesus talking about robbing a bank with his girlfriend, shooting and killing Tampa police Officer Lois Marrero and killing himself. He committed suicide on camera. Some of the 12 jurors were visibly shaken by the images. One female juror bunched up in a ball, trembled and wiped away a tear. |
Gutierrez holding a gun allegedly used in murder. |
Lois Marrero's Radio. [Photo Tampa Tribune] |
Tampa Tribune Daily Updates Paula Gutierrez Murder Trial The Tampa Tribune is posting daily updates and a synopsis of the events and testionony that occured during the Gutierrez murder trial. May 12: *Lengthy Questioning Gutierrez's Frst Cnfession: *Blood Found On Gutierrez Shirt: *Gutierrez Describes Shooting: *Gutierrez Tape Played: *Confession Tape To Be Played *Hostage Recounts Ordeal: *Jurors Shown Photographs Bloody Radio * Juror Fauls to Show. [May 12, 2002: Day 6] |
Witness Claims No Signs of Abuse During Standoff May 12: In a surveillance video played at the murder trial of Paula Gutierrez, Isaac Davis, who was held hostage, can be seen just to the left of Nester DeJesus, the man that killed Tampa Police officer Lois Marrero. Davis took the stand and talked of his ordeal, "I was like, please don't hurt me, please don't kill me," Davis testified. "He [DeJesus] goes, we're not going to hurt you." Prosecutor Jay Pruner inquired about Gutierrez's demeanor during the standoff with police. Since much of her defense focuses on the idea that she was afraid of DeJesus and went on the crime spree against her will. But, in his testimony, Davis offered little, if any, information that would back up defense claims that Gutierrez felt threatened. |
Isaac Davis: Hostage & Courtroom [Photo Credits: Bay News 9] |
Video Clip WTSP 10 News Paula Gutierrez Murder Trial May 12: WTSP 10 News Report on Paula Gutierrez confession played at her murder trial and hostage testifies about ordeal. [Click on WTSP 10 News Logo to View Video Clip >] |
Gutierrez Describes Relationship May 14: Paula Gutierrez detailed her twisted teenage relationship with the man who the defense says intimidated her into helping him rob a bank and being present when he killed a police officer. She testified. He choked her in front of a Chinese video rental store. At a subway station, threw beer bottles at her. He slapped her because she caressed his face too hard. He screamed at her parents and told them she was a slut. Recorded Gutierrez Admission Is Played May 14: Prosecutors played Gutierrez's taped confession during the fourth day of testimony in her first-degree murder trial of Tampa police Officer Lois Marrero. |
Paula Gutierrez shows jury how her boyfriend, Nestor DeJesus tried to choke her. [Photo by: Cliff McBride] |
Testimony Paints DeJesus As Demon May 15: Jurors in the Paula Gutierrez murder trial were shown a haunting self portrait of the man she says manipulated her into robbing a bank before he shot Tampa police Officer Lois Marrero. Using a software program, Nestor DeJesus had superimposed his face on a picture of the devil. In the picture, DeJesus, surrounded by flames, has red glowing eyes, red horns and a red shirt. [Nestor DeJesus picture of himself as a devil. Tampa Tribune Photo to Right >] |
Jury Hears Gutierrez's Flower Shop Holdup Confession May 17: Jurors heard surprise evidence that Paula Gutierrez and her boyfriend robbed a Tampa flower shop three days before robbing a bank. The unexpected revelation came from Gutierrez in a taped confession she gave to police about the holdup of the Flowers by Patricia store. |
Images Of Past Hold Gutierrez's Future May 21: Jurors will retire to a the jury room to decide Paula Gutierrez's fate. They will have trays loaded with evidence to look over, including: A form Gutierrez signed when she bought a 9 mm MAC-11 handgun for her boyfriend, Nestor DeJesus. A bundle of red-stained cash DeJesus took from the Bank of America, he and Gutierrez are accused of robbing July 6, 2001. And the gun. Gutierrez Had No Choice, Psychiatrist Says May 20: Michael Maher, a forensic psychiatrist testified that Paula Gutierrez believed she had no choice but to follow her boyfriend's every demand. The psychiatrist defense witness, said Gutierrez suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder. |
Gutierrez Guilty On All Counts May 22: A Tampa jury has convicted a 25-year-old Paula Gutierrez on all three counts she was facing, including first-degree murder of a Tampa police officer, even though her boyfriend who fired the fatal shots. The other two counts are burglary of a dwelling and armed robbery. Gutierrez appeared disconsolate and put her head down on a table when the verdict was read, and her mother broke down and had to be removed from the courtroom. Gutierrez faces life in prison when she is sentenced June 23rd. Post includes a Tampa Bay 10 WTSP video clip of news report and Tampa Bay 10 WTSP, Bay News 9 and Tampa Tribune news articles. |
Gutierrez Guilty All Counts [Click Photo View Tampa Bay 10 WTSP Video Clip] |
Tampa Tribune Daily Updates Paula Gutierrez Murder Trial The Tampa Tribune daily updates and synopsis of the events and testionony that occured during the Paula Gutierrez murder trial. For May 15th through May 23. |
New Litigation in Paula Gutierrez Case Focuses on Police Choppers May 23: Lois Marrero's family is fighting back. They plan on suing the city for what they call a disregard of officers' safety. Their attorney Richard Hirsch talked about the day Marrero was shot and killed while chasing Gutierrez's boyfriend, Nestor DeJesus. "The observer and other members of the flight crew went to lunch," said Hirsch. "There had been a birthday party." That left only one police chopper pilot in the sky to relay information about suspects on the ground to other officers giving chase. In their complaint to the city, the attorneys say the City of Tampa was "reckless and had a willful disregard for the safety of its officers." They say chopper pilots have to focus on flying, not observing, and absence of an observer in the chopper may have contributed to Lois Marrero's death. |
Paula Gutierrez, 26, Learns Her Fate - Life in Prison June 23, 2004: Paula Gutierrez, the Bay area woman whose boyfriend shot and killed a Tampa Police Officer, learned her fate. She will spend the rest of her life in prison for her role in the shooting death of Lois Marrero. The 19-year Tampa Police Department veteran was gunned down following a bank robbery on July 6, 2001. |
< Gutierrez's mother addressed the court during her daughter's sentencing hearing. Gutierrez will spend the rest of her life in prison. > [Photo Bay News 9] |
