EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – A former Fort Bliss soldier was sentenced to over 27 years in a Mexican prison for killing his 19-year-old girlfriend back in 2023 in Ciudad Juarez, officials said.
Saul Luna Villa will face 27 years and four months in prison for the aggravated femicide of 19-year-old Aylin Valenzuela, a mother of two, the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office announced on Wednesday, April 30.
The Chihuahua AG’s Office said Luna Villa will serve his sentence in the Cereso No. 3 prison in Juarez. He was also ordered to pay 1,949,000 pesos (over $98,000) in damages.
As we previously reported, in April 2023, Valenzuela’s body was found dumped at the intersection of Paseo del Norte and Agustin Barbachano in the Anahuac neighborhood in Juarez, according to court documents.
Autopsy results revealed that Valenzuela was stabbed five times and shot five times.
After dumping her body in Juarez, Luna Villa returned to the U.S. to avoid capture. However, he was arrested by U.S. law enforcement and extradited to Juarez in February of last year, in what officials called a “binational operation.”
According to court documents, Luna Villa and Valenzuela were in a four-year relationship, and Luna Villa was “very jealous and possessive, and the couple argued very often.”
Additionally, Luna Villa had been stationed at Fort Bliss for two years and had multiple domestic violence reports, according to court documents.