FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - More than three years after the shocking murders of 18-year-old Yanelly Solorio-Rivera and her 3-week-old daughter, Celine, on Sept. 24, 2022, her sister and her sister’s boyfriend were sentenced to prison for their deaths.

In the courtroom, Judge Brian Alvarez sentenced 25-year-old Yarelly Solorio-Rivera to two life terms for shooting and killing the young mother and infant in their sleep at their Fresno home.

Her boyfriend, 29-year-old Martin Arroyo-Morales, was handed down a 22-year prison sentence for two counts of voluntary manslaughter.

However, it was the sisters' father who pleaded to the judge that Arroyo-Morales should have the longer sentence.

“He is the one guilty of all of this," said Marcelino Solorio-Saragoza. “I know that you’re trying to do

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