Sentencing is scheduled for May 31st in King County Superior Court for a Seattle-area man convicted of the 2012 murder of 22-year-old Ashton Reyes of Juneau.
A King County jury earlier this month found Jacob Andrew Mommer guilty of first degree murder and second degree assault, while armed with a deadly weapon.
“Under Washington law we can add a firearm enhancement, which is what we did and that’s what the jury came back with on both the assault as well as the murder charge,” said Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County prosecutors’ office.
Donohoe said Mommer’s sentence does not allow parole.
“His standard sentence range for both charges, which include the firearm allegations, is 357 to 443 months in prison, which is about 30 to 37 years,” he said.
Reyes was shot on Jan. 3, 2012 in a Subway parking lot at 9305 Rainier Avenue South, during what police described as a drug sale.
Court documents indicate Mommer and another individual allegedly attempted to rob Reyes and her boyfriend, Jason Rose, who were sitting in her car. Police said Rose had arranged to meet Mommer to sell him an ounce of marijuana.
Rose told police and said he testified during the trial that he and Reyes were ambushed as Mommer and the other man robbed them at gunpoint. Rose said he gave them Reyes’ purse and left the vehicle then gunfire erupted. He was struck in the buttocks as he fled across the street. Police found Reyes sprawled across the front seat of her car with a gunshot wound to her torso. She died a short time later at Harborview Medical Center.
Police said Reyes was not a participant in the crimes.
Mommer is 20 years old. He is being held on $1-million bail in the King County Jail until his sentencing, according to the prosecuting attorney’s office.
Donohoe said the second man allegedly involved in the incident has not been identified and the investigation continues.
Reyes was a 2008 graduate of Juneau’s Yaakoosge’ Daakahidi Alternative High School, and daughter of Rick Reyes of Juneau and Terri Reyes of Oregon.
In November 2011, Ashton Reyes graduated from Everett Community College and was a registered dental assistant.
Rosemarie Alexander is a reporter at KTOO in Juneau.
