Family Of David Marmolejo Thinks Justice Served; Would Like Charges Filed Against Ex-Girlfriend

The family of David and Gloria Marmolejo is in turmoil.

The family has been torn apart by David’s murdering his mother, Gloria in July 2009 and they’re torn between continuing to love David and making peace with him.

A San Antonio jury sentenced David to 54 years in prison and a $10,000 fine on Wednesday after he was convicted of murder on Tuesday.

David’s uncle told ABC-7 that the family put their faith in the justice system and it came through for them.

“We think that it was done correctly,” Mark Huerta said of the verdict and prison sentence. “It hurts. Our family loses again, obviously. We’re a strong family and we’re going to continue try to stick together but of course this is going to put a another big – give us a heavier heart again. It’s not easy to put my nephew … away but my sister didn’t deserve what happened to her either.”

Manny Marmolejo, David’s brother, told ABC-7 he thinks his mother would still want him to love David and try and make peace with him over her murder. But Manny is not sure if that will happen.

“That question is really difficult,” Manny said. “He took my mom away from me and I know somewhere in the bottom of my heart I do still feel love for him, but I can’t find that right now. I had a hard time just being in the courtroom with him right now. I know my mom would want me to make some sort of peace effort with him but right now that’s not going to happen. You know, I can’t say if it ever will. I know she still wants me to be there for him one way or another because that’s the kind of person she was but I don’t know if that day will ever come.”

The family’s fight for justice isn’t over yet. They said they plan to pursue legal action against David’s stepsister and girlfriend at the time of the murder, Mariah Wilson, who admitted she helped him cover up the crime and dump Gloria’s body in the desert.

“We still want to see if there can be charges pressed against her,” Mark Huerta said. “We still want to press on against her, whether her involvement was minimal or she she had a bigger part, she was involved. So, we would still like for her or anyone else that was involved to have a sentence for them, too.”

El Paso District Attorney Jaime Esparza said he will not seek any charges against Wilson.

“That won’t happen,” he said. “I’ve talked to them at length about that. She was very useful as an investigative tool. She was very useful in us getting a picture of what happened. We would not have known those things except for her cooperation, so that won’t happen. We won’t file charges on her.”

Wilson did not testify in the second trial, but did testify in the first trial under a full immunity agreement with the prosecution. In the first trial, Wilson testified that David admitted to her that he killed his mother and they both disposed of the body in the desert.

Just as in the first trial, Wilson’s name was brought up several times in the second trial by the defense as a person El Paso Police should have looked at as a suspect. Because she did not testify in the second trial, the jury could not be told about her full immunity. Under the immunity agreement, the state would not file charges against Wilson if she testified truthfully.

The second trial happened in San Antonio instead of El Paso after a change-of-venue request from the defense.

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