![CREDIT: RISP:] The Carbuncle Pond murderers have been sentenced to life in prison.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Carbuncle-Pond-Murder-Suspects-Charged-336x212.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY – The 2 Carbuncle Pond murderers found guilty of killing Duarte DaLuz at the 39-acre water body inCoventry Dec. 21, 2022, have been sentenced in Kent County Superior Courtroom to life in jail.
DaLuz’s physique was recovered from Carbuncle Pond in Coventry on Dec. 21, 2022.
At a listening to on March 28, 2025, Superior Courtroom Justice Luis M. Matos sentenced Michael Lambert, 48 and Gary Gromkiewicz, 37 to life in jail, plus a further 10 years, for the homicide and conspiracy to homicide Leila Duarte DaLuz.
On Jan. 17, 2025, following a 10-day jury trial, a jury discovered every of the defendants responsible of 1 depend of first-degree homicide and one depend of conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide. For this trial, Decide Matos sat two separate juries, every of which delivered convictions for his or her respective defendants.
‘Leila’s life ended below horrible circumstances, however her life will not be outlined by her demise. As Nationwide Crime Victims’ Rights Week nears, we should all recommit ourselves to centering victims, together with the households of victims, inside our understanding of true justice.’
“As we speak’s sentencing is a simply conclusion to a very devastating case,” stated Lawyer Common Neronha. “Leila’s life ended below horrible circumstances, however her life will not be outlined by her demise. As Nationwide Crime Victims’ Rights Week nears, we should all recommit ourselves to centering victims, together with the households of victims, inside our understanding of true justice. Whereas nothing can convey Leila again to her family members, I hope that these life sentences convey them a way of closure and peace. I’m very grateful to each juries for getting this proper, and to the Rhode Island State Police for his or her laborious work on this advanced case.”
Carbuncle Pond Murderers traveled RI, Warwick day of killing
Through the trial, the State proved past an inexpensive doubt that throughout the early morning hours of Dec. 21, 2022, the Carbuncle Pond murderers viciously assaulted Leila Duarte DaLuz and left her to drown in Carbuncle Pond.
At roughly 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 21, 2022, Gromkiewicz and Lambert traveled to Brockton, Mass. to select up Ms. Duarte DaLuz at her dwelling. The sufferer was Gromkiewicz’s ex-girlfriend and was pregnant on the time. Based on mobile phone location knowledge and video surveillance footage, they then drove all through Rhode Island over the course of the morning, making a number of stops, together with within the Buttonwoods part of Warwick and at a Lincoln fuel station/comfort retailer.
At roughly 6:18 a.m., investigators tracked their journey to western Coventry, in an space the place Carbuncle Pond is situated, and the place investigators recovered the physique of Ms. Duarte DaLuz.
The sufferer was discovered by an area fisherman in Carbuncle Pond, beneath the ice, with lacerations on her head. Based on the health worker’s report, DaLuz sustained blunt pressure trauma to the pinnacle. The health worker additionally discovered water in her lungs, indicating she was alive when she entered the water.
RI State Police charged the Carbuncle Pond murderers in May 2023. The boys’s indictments had been announced in September 2023.
Felony Division Chief Stephen Dambruch and Assistant Lawyer Common John Corrigan of the Workplace of the Lawyer Common and Detective Corporal Robert Hopkins and Detective James Hudson of the Rhode Island State Police led the investigation and prosecution of the case.
