The man accused of killing a Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Deputy and wounding two others will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Tuesday morning, a Pottawattamie County judge sentenced Wesley Correa-Carmenaty to life in prison plus 50 years for the crime spree that left Deputy Mark Burbridge dead.
Last week, Correa-Carmenaty's attorney told Pottawattamie County Attorney Matt Wilbur that his client intended to change his plea from not guilty to guilty. Tuesday's court appearance was originally when Correa-Carmenaty's trial was set to begin, but instead turned into his sentencing.
Correa-Carmenaty received the mandatory life sentence for killing Burbridge, the additional fifty year sentence is a culmination of eleven other charges including attempted murder, kidnapping and robbery.
Emotional statements were made to Correa-Carmenaty by Deputy Burbridge's children in court.
Burbridge's step daughter Kelsey telling Correa-Carmenaty that he was a monster, who didn't deserve to live. "You don't deserve a place to lie your head at night while the rest of us can't sleep. You don't deserve to be served meals while the rest of us can't eat. You didn't even deserve to breathe after my dad took his last breath. Now that you're sitting in front of me, I want you to know that you got lucky. You got lucky my dad didn't grab his gun first and put the bullet in you. You took everything from us and for what, you're still sitting here."
After being sentenced, Correa-Carmenaty addressed the court, through an interpreter, that he had done many terrible things in his life and that he felt remorse for what he had done. "First of all, the family of the man that died thinks I am a monster and I understand their pain, I killed their father. Perhaps they won't believe me when I say, that in reality, I didn't want to kill him."
Correa-Carmenaty would go on to explain that he liked both Burbridge and Deputy Pat Morgan, who was wounded in the escape attempt. "About the sheriffs that were transporting inmates to the court in Pottawattamie, just two of them I liked. One is in here, I don't see him, and the other one is the person that I killed. In reality I liked him."
The convicted killer will now spend the rest of his life in an Iowa prison, with no chance of parole.