Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Mora Sentenced To Life In Prison For South Side Double Homicide

Phillip Steven Mora

Mendoza, accomplice in double homicide awaiting trial

By H. Nelson Goodson
April 12, 2011

Milwaukee - On Friday, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Dennis Cimpl sentenced Phillip Steven Mora, 25, to life in prison for the January 23, 2010 first-degree intentional homicide of Salvador Chavarin, 47, outside a South side tavern. Mora must served at least 40 years, before being eligible for parole. He was also sentenced to an additional consecutive 35 years for the murder of Benjamin Nuñez, 20, but will serve 25 years.
Mora was also sentenced to another 40 years on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and two counts for attempted armed robbery, but will serve 15 years on those counts concurrently, and 15 years of supervision on all combined sentences. Mora will actually serve 80 years in prison in the double homicide due to sentence reductions, according to Judge Cimpl's sentencing.
Mora's accomplice in the homicides, Andrew Mendoza, 20, will go on trial in july, according to court records.
On January 23, Nuñez at 2:00 a.m. had just left Los Arcos Tavern located in the 700 block of W. Greenfield Ave. to go pick up his girlfriend when Mora and Mendoza approached him and tried to rob him. While Nuñez was walking to his truck in a nearby parking lot.
The bartender at the tavern noticed both Mora and Mendoza assaulting Nuñez, and told other patrons of an attempted robbery. Chavarin, one of the patrons came to help Nuñez and was able to grab one of the suspects. Mora then shot Chavarin in the chest in the parking lot before also shooting Nuñez several times in the head and neck.
Mora fled to Texas and was later arrested in July 2010 in Brownsville on a parole violation for a drug and firearm charge. He was taken to the Cameron County Jail where it was determine Mora was wanted in Milwaukee for a double homicide, according to the Cameron County Sheriff's Department.

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