{"id":1597188,"date":"2022-08-09T15:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597188"},"modified":"2022-08-09T15:03:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:03:03","slug":"ex-rutgers-basketball-player-sentenced-to-22-years-in-prison-for-killing-brothel-worker-he-mistook-for-other-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-rutgers-basketball-player-sentenced-to-22-years-in-prison-for-killing-brothel-worker-he-mistook-for-other-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Rutgers Basketball Player Sentenced To 22 Years In Prison For Killing Brothel Worker He Mistook For Other Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-rutgers-basketball-player-sentenced-to-22-years-in-prison-for-killing-brothel-worker-he-mistook-for-other-woman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597188&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A man who briefly played on Rutgers University\u2019s basketball team has been sentenced to 22 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to killing a 19-year-old brothel worker he mistook for a different woman.<\/p>\n<p>Logan Kelley, 28, pleaded guilty to killing Isis Atalia Montoya Romero in a Tijuana nightclub back in February 2021, the San Diego Union-Tribune <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/border-baja-california\/story\/2022-08-08\/rutgers-basketball-player-sentenced-tijuana-nightclub-killing\">reported<\/a>. Surveillance footage reportedly shows Kelley walking up behind Montoya and slit her throat, running away as she fell to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley reportedly believed Montoya was a different woman he had met at the club, and used a 4-inch clip-point blade with a military seal on the handle to kill her, leading police to initially believe he was a member of the U.S. military, which he was not. Montoya had been speaking with a man in the hallway of a motel next to the Adelita nightclub, which describes itself as the \u201cmost traditional and famous men\u2019s club in Tijuana in operation since 1962.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelley was initially charged with femicide, a hate crime in Mexico that would have carried a minimum sentence of 40 years in prison had the case gone to trial. Since Kelley pleaded guilty, he received a deal to spend 22 years in prison and pay $40,000 in restitution to Montoya\u2019s family, which includes her 4-year-old son.<\/p>\n<p>Montoya\u2019s father was outraged at the sentence, NJ.com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/rutgersbasketball\/2022\/08\/ex-rutgers-walk-on-logan-kelly-gets-22-years-for-tijuana-murder-as-victims-father-decries-injustice.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted justice, but justice was not served in this whole process,\u201d Jos\u00e9 Montoya told the outlet. \u201cThe judge, the prosecutor, even my daughter\u2019s attorney all acted in favor of [Kelley] and not for her. I am very frustrated by all the corruption and the deception,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is video of what this assassin did to my daughter. He practically decapitated her! It seems like the judge didn\u2019t even see the video,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley grew up in Mountainside, New Jersey and was a star basketball player in high school, leading the state in scoring in 2012 as a senior at Governor Livingston High School in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He became a walk-on member of the Rutgers teams and was provided a scholarship for the 2013-2014 season, NJ.com reported. He never used the scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley only played in three games as a freshman at Rutgers and was removed from the team at the end of that season for some unknown reason, Border Report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borderreport.com\/immigration\/border-crime\/ex-rutgers-basketball-player-admits-to-brutal-killing-of-tijuana-prostitute\/\">revealed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who briefly played on Rutgers University\u2019s basketball team has been sentenced to 22 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to killing a 19-year-old brothel worker he mistook for a different woman. 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