DOVER, DELAWARE (1/16/2015) A 23-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison for the Valentine’s Day slaying of a Smyrna-area man nearly five years ago.
Juan Restrepo-Duque, of the Red Mill Farms development east of Newark, was found guilty in December in the 2010 killing of 61-year-old Kenton W. “Wes” Wolf at Wolf’s home in the Willow Court neighborhood.
Restrepo-Duque was 18 at the time and had met Wolf on a dating website, with Restrepo-Duque visiting Wolf’s home on two occasions, according to the state Attorney General’s Office.
Restrepo-Duque stabbed the victim 18 times and shot him with a BB gun 7 times after Wolf reportedly made a sexual advance while the two were drinking beer in a bedroom.
While police determined the murder occurred on Feb. 14, Wolf’s body wasn’t discovered until co-workers reported four days later that he had failed to show up for work and troopers investigated.
A Superior Court jury convicted Restrepo-Duque of second-degree murder, possession of a deadly weapon during commission of a felony, theft of a motor vehicle and carrying a concealed deadly instrument.
Delaware Department of Justice Deputy Attorneys General Jason Cohee and Nicole Hartman prosecuted the case.