Left: Freddy Gonzalez (Simson County Jail). Right: Brian Russell (Crafton Funeral Home).
A federal judge in Kentucky sentenced a man to 40 years in prison for orchestrating the murder of his girlfriend’s ex-husband after she decided to return to her spouse, records show.
Freddy Gonzalez, 40, pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as part of a conspiracy to commit a murder-for-hire in the death of 43-year-old Brian Russell in Franklin, located in the southern part of the Bluegrass State. Gonzalez, a manager at a cafe at the Kentucky Downs casino and hotel, hired one of his employees to murder Russell. The employee, Xavior Posey, shot Russell to death at the victim’s home on Dec. 30, 2020.
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According to prosecutors, Russell and his ex-wife were high school sweethearts who were married for 16 years and had two kids together. In 2018, they separated and divorced but maintained contact to co-parent their children. She began dating Gonzalez in 2020 but broke it off after about eight months. Gonzalez continued to “pine” for the woman as she went back and forth between him and Russell. During this time, Gonzalez “obsessively stalked” the woman, prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum.
“He deluged her with text messages, surreptitiously placed a digital tracking device on her car, surveilled her, and staged ‘random’ encounters with her,” prosecutors wrote.
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