Two Las Vegas cousins who lured a man to a hotel room for a threesome before robbing and killing him have been jailed for up to 25 years.
On May 17, 2023, Bryan Altamirano-Solano, 25, went up to a hotel room with Arionna Taylor, 22, as well as Taylor’s cousin Erika Covington, 21, and never came back.
Detectives later recovered two explicit videos on Altamirano-Solano’s phone that showed sex acts involving the women. They were accused of bringing him up to the hotel room under promises of a threesome before killing and robbing him.
The pair were sentenced at a court Thursday. Covington shared her regrets at the bloody killing, but Covington stayed silent.
Their crimes were exposed around eight hours after haunting footage showed a smiling Altamirano-Solano taking the pair to his room.
When he failed to check out, a housekeeper went up to check on him and was met with a disturbing scene. He was found with a single gunshot wound to the chest.
Police launched an investigation into his murder. Footage from security cameras caught the two women walking with Altamirano-Solano inside Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas strip.
They were seen laughing arm in arm but were captured on video running away from the room 15 minutes later.
The surveillance footage and a slug found in the victim’s room that was matched to another crime involving Taylor led investigators to the suspects.
The women initially pleaded guilty to the crimes but accepted a plea deal for second-degree murder in November.
On Thursday, Judge Tierra Jones accepted the terms of the plea agreement. The women are set to serve 10 to 25 years in prison.
Prosecutors or police were never able to determine who pulled the trigger, but Nevada law allows for anyone who was involved in a murder to serve time for it, not just the person who committed the heinous act.
The women were allowed an opportunity to speak in court and apologize for their horrific actions, to which Taylor declined.
However, Covington elected to speak to Altamirano-Solano’s family, telling them, ‘I would like to send my condolences to Brian’s family.’
‘I deeply, genuinely apologize for the grief and the pain that’s been brought to you guys’ family.’
The victim’s father, Victor Altamirano, was present in court and asked for justice to be served in his son’s gruesome death.
‘It wasn’t enough just taking his belongings, they had to kill him,’ he added. Altamirano-Solano’s mother joined the hearing online from outside the country.
‘The pain that I felt was so deep,’ Nelly Altamirano said. ‘I felt like I just lost my life. I had so many questions. Why? Why my son?’
Authorities initially linked Covington and Taylor to the murder by matching surveillance footage to their social media profiles.
The two women are cousins and Taylor had tagged Covington in a post on Instagram.
The post pictured the two women in the same outfits they had on in the surveillance footage.
When investigators approached the women about the crime, Covington initially said that they met Altamirano-Solano at the valet but that they didn’t communicate because of the language barrier.
Taylor claimed that she experienced memory loss from a car accident and couldn’t recall what happened the night of Altamirano-Solano’s death.
After authorities found the footage of the two women running away, they discovered a video of the pair getting into a stolen car and leaving the scene.
They also noticed that the bag slung around Altamirano-Solano’s shoulder in the first video was the same one that the girls were seen running away with after going into his hotel room.
Another woman who was not involved in the crime had booked the room and told investigators that she met Altamirano-Solano on a texting app a week earlier.
They had arranged to have sex but she left the hotel before he met up with the women.
He was a native of Nicaragua and was in the US seeking asylum before he was brutally murdered in a Las Vegas hotel room.