Surveillance video has emerged of a 17-year-old's attempt to rape and strangle his Las Vegas teacher, an ambush for which the teenager will spend 16 to 40 years behind bars after he is convicted in June .
In the April 2022 video, obtained through a public records request by 8 News nowformer El Dorado High School student Jonathan Martinez-Garcia, then 16, can be seen wandering the halls and trying to get into a locked classroom.
When he can't get into the room, he starts walking down the hall before doing a lap. The teacher, identified only as Sade, sticks her head out of the classroom.
Sade can be seen wrestling with Martinez-Garcia before re-entering the room.
There, she was brutally attacked by the student, according to prosecutors.
(Video: YouTube)
During his sentencing, prosecutors said Sade was rendered unconscious, according to reports DailyMail.com. She awoke to find her underwear down and MartÃnez-Garcia threatening to burn her alive.
“Can't you die already?” he asked as he was attacking her.
The student used a cord to strangle Sade from behind and cut her wrists.
“I would wake up in a new place and position each time, knowing that he had just dragged my lifeless body to a different part of the classroom to do whatever he decided to do with my body while I was unconscious.” Sade recalled during his attacker's sentencing. “My body had been beaten so badly that I couldn't fight anymore.”
An hour and a half after seeing him enter the classroom, MartÃnez-Garcia is seen leaving the school with his head down.
Clark County School District police body camera video, also obtained by 8 News Now, shows the moment Martinez-Garcia was spotted later that day by officers.
The teenager was seen by the school officer in a vehicle near Lind Lane and Bonanza Road.
“Possible suspicious sighting, see the suspect right outside his residence right now,” the officer who eventually arrested MartÃnez-GarcÃa said on the radio.
According to 8 News Now, the violent attack “led lawmakers to pass several school safety bills during the last legislative session.”
“This made it easier for teachers and administrators to expel or suspend students for violent behavior,” according to the report.
Martinez-Garcia “pleaded guilty in April to attempted murder, attempted sexual assault and assault with a deadly weapon causing substantial bodily harm.” Las Vegas Review-Journal reported after the teenager's sentencing in June.
During the sentencing hearing, MartÃnez-Garcia apologized for his actions and for not having asked for the help he needed.
“I regret what I have done,” he said. “I also regret the things I should have done, but didn't do.”
Martinez-Garcia's public defender, Tyler Gaston, blamed her behavior on “serious side effects from an asthma medication, which Gaston said caused mood swings, night terrors and hallucinations.” , the Review-Journal reported. “Before taking the drug Singulair, also known by the generic name Montelukast, Martinez Garcia was an attentive teenager who got good grades in school, participated in ROTC and won a robotics award,” Gaston said.
“The company that created Singulair is currently facing multiple lawsuits alleging that it was aware that the drug could affect the brain and cause psychiatric problems,” the document notes.
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