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Office of the District Attorney P. David Soares Raymon McGill Sentencing ALBANY , NY – District Attorney P. David Soares today announced that RAYMON MCGILL , 23, a resident of the Altoona Correctional Facility will be sentenced twice on Monday, January 23, 2006 . He is facing a sentence of 40 years to life for the murders of Martha Montalvo and George Young. This sentencing will take place before the Honorable Stephen W. Herrick. He is also facing a sentence of 20 years to run concurrently with his murder sentence for the rape of a 78 year old woman. This sentencing will take place before the Honorable Thomas A. Breslin. Late last year, MCGILL plead guilty to the charges of having committed the brutal murder of George Young, 68, on or about January 26, 2004 and Martha Montalvo, 50, on or about March 6, 2000 and raped a 78 year old woman on or about January 21, 2000 . The victim was suffering from dementia at the time of the rape. All three of these crimes were especially violent: Young was beaten with a piece of steel reinforcing bar and then shot in the head and Montalvo was killed by multiple stab wounds. MCGILL was charged with the crimes after an analysis of his DNA matched up with DNA samples taken at the scenes of all three crimes. MCGILL is currently serving time for attempted robbery. DA Soares express his desire that this Indictment would signal a turning point in law enforcement in New York State . “In this case, a DNA match solved three open cases. However, had we had a DNA match at the time of his McGill’s first conviction, we might possibly have avoided one of these murders and the rape. The aggressive use of DNA evidence represents the ‘Tough and Smart’ approach to law enforcement here to Albany County that I am committed to bringing to Albany County . There are few tools available to law enforcement that are tougher or smarter than DNA. I want to call upon my colleagues in the State Legislature to provide the resources and the authority for an expansion of the DNA database for those convicted of felonies and misdemeanors,” he said. Back to Press Releases For further information contact: Richard Arthur
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