Las Vegas boy admitted to a violent attack on teacher which saw him rape and strangle her before slashing victim’s wrists

Jonathan Eluterio Martinez-Garcia, 17, was tried as an adult, and sentenced Wednesday to a minimum of 16 and up to 40 years in prison

Martinez-Garcia, then 16, attacked his female teacher in the classroom, after school at El Dorado High School in downtown Las Vegas, in April 2022

Arrested the next day for attempted murder, sexual assault, battery with the intent to commit sexual assault, first-degree kidnapping and robbery 

He pled guilty to attempted murder, attempted sexual assault and battery with the use of a deadly weapon, while other charges were dropped 

The teacher suffered trauma and multiple injuries and said: ‘it only makes sense that he should be in prison for as long as possible’

Jonathan Eluterio Martinez Garcia [photo], pled guilty Wednesday to attempted murder, attempted sexual assault, and battery with use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm that left his victim with trauma and multiple injuries

A 17-year-old boy was tried as an adult has been sentenced to up to 40 years in prison for the savage attack of his teacher at a Las Vegas high school that left her near death.
Jonathan Eluterio Martinez-Garcia, was 16-year-old student at El Dorado High School in downtown Las Vegas, on April 7 , 2022, when he attacked his female teacher from behind in the classroom, after school.
He punched and choked the teacher into unconsciousness, raped her and then tried to slit her wrists before he attempted to trap her under heavy bookshelves.
The victim, identified only as Sade, survived the assault, but suffered trauma and multiple injuries. During sentencing, prosecutors said that the teacher remembers Garcia repeatedly telling her: ‘Why won’t you die?’ 
Martinez-Garcia was arrested the next day and charged with attempted murder, sexual assault, battery with the intent to commit sexual assault, first-degree kidnapping and robbery.
She told the court that since the attack, she has been ‘imprisoned’ mentally and physically, the Las Vegas  Review-Journal reported.
‘It only makes sense that he too should be in prison for as long as possible,’ she said.
Martinez-Garcia was sentenced on Wednesday at the Regional Justice Center after pleading guilty to attempted murder, attempted sexual assault, and battery with use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm that left his victim with trauma and multiple injuries. 
Clark County District Court Judge Kathleen Delaney, sentenced Martinez-Garcia to a minimum of 16 to 40 years in prison. 

The victim [photo], identified as Sade, survived the assault but suffered trauma and multiple injuries. She told the court, said ‘he beat my body so badly that I couldn’t fight’. Prosecutors describe Martinez-Garcia as ‘a defendant with a high likelihood to re-offend’

Prosecutors asked the judge that for a minimum of 22 to 55 years behind bars. However Judge Delaney in her sentencing said she was ‘balancing the seriousness of the crime with other factors’. 
Ahead of the sentencing, Garcia’s public defender, TY Gaston, said that his behavior was caused by severe side effects of an asthma medication, Singulair, which caused mood changes, night terrors and hallucinations. 
‘He was no history of anything but being a perfect loving kid,’ Gaston told the judge.
In April, Martinez-Garcia agreed to a plea deal that avoided trial in the after school attack. Pleading guilty to attempted sexual assault and battery with use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm, other charges were also dropped,
At sentencing, the defendant apologizing for the assault, said he regretted what he had done. He told the court he was ready to ‘accept the consequences,’ KSNV reports. 
This was the victim’s first teaching position, and she never returned to teaching because of the trauma.

A close-up of some of the bruising the teacher sustained from the violent April 7, 2022 attack

The brutal attack occurred after Garcia went to his teacher’s classroom after school hours to discuss his grades.
Police said he locked the classroom door before he viciously beat her. Shocking images of some of the injuries she sustained were shown in the courtroom.
The victim told the court, ‘he beat my body so badly that I couldn’t fight.’
‘One of the times I woke, I found myself trapped under heavy shelves that he toppled over me to where my breathing was suppressed, and I was being crushed to near death,’ she recalled.
‘I truly believed with everything in me that I was going to die right there under those shelves.’

The brutal attack occurred after Garcia went to his teacher’s classroom at El Dorado High School located in downtown Las Vegas, after school hours to discuss his grades on April 7, 2022

Tried as an adult after the attack on his teacher, Jonathan Eluterio Martinez Garcia, [photo], was convicted and sentenced to a maximum of 40 years. He will serve a minimum of 16 years

Sade also said ‘it only makes sense that he should be in prison for as long as possible,’ KLAS reported. 
Garcia fled after the attack and took the teacher’s keys. The instructor was later found by a school employee who called 911.  
Garcia who attends ROTC was arrested shortly after by school police while he was on his way to an award ceremony at the school.
His mother described Garcia as a ‘good student.’
She said he hadn’t been diagnosed with any medical or mental disabilities,’ but told police that he seemed ‘depressed and disconnected’ in recent months.
In the arrest report Garcia talks about the attack on his teacher with detectives.
He said: ‘I don’t know why I attacked her, she was good to me.’

Defense and family tried to portray sexual predator Jonathan Martinez Garcia, seen [right], with his family, as a normal teen ‘with no history of anything but being a perfect loving kid,’ but the judge did not buy the argument and sent him to prison, 16-40 years  

During the sentencing, prosecutors said that the teacher remembers Garcia saying repeatedly: ‘Why won’t you die?’ 
Sade told the judge that she did not return to her teaching job after the attack because she felt mentally and physically ‘imprisoned,’ AP reported. 
In the end Judge Delaney handing Martinez-Garcia 16 to 40 years in prison for attempted murder, attempted sexual assault, and battery with substantial bodily harm, remarked that attack on educators is unacceptable: ‘It is the most heinous type of crime there could be.’