Crime & Safety
Report: Trial Begins in Murder-For-Hire Case Aimed at Gaithersburg Husband
Gazette: Montgomery Village wife charged with attempted first-degree murder
The trial began Monday for a woman at the center of a murder-for-hire scheme, The Gazette reports.
Luisa Paiz, 34, was charged with attempted first-degree murder, soliciting murder, assault and related conspiracy charges, according to Montgomery County Circuit Court records accessed online.
Court records provide a Montgomery Village address for Paiz.
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Police said Paiz convinced Khiry Blue, a man in the Army whom she was co-stationed with in Texas, to kill her husband, Santiago Perez, The Gazette reports, citing records filed in court.
Her husband—who was separated from Paiz—described to police being forced into his backyard by a man who proceeded to strangle him early June 25, 2012, as he left his home on Stedwick Drive, but Perez was able to get away, the newspaper reports.
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>>>See: “Woman on trial this week for soliciting murder of husband in Gaithersburg” at Gazette.net.
Court records accessed online show Blue pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder, assault, and related conspiracy charges on Aug. 23. His next scheduled court appearance is Nov. 15.
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