Life In Prison For Man Who Killed Girlfriend In South Brunswick

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — The rest of his life.

That's how long a judge said Giver Vasquez must spend in prison after he stalked and then gunned down his ex-girlfriend as she pulled into work early one June morning at a South Brunswick industrial park.

Giver Quiroz-Vasquez, who also goes by Gilberto, 28, was sentenced in New Brunswick Thursday by Superior Court Judge Pedro J. Jimenez Jr. to life in a New Jersey State prison. The life sentence comes after a jury found Vasquez guilty last October of all counts in the heinous murder.

Alicia Martinez-Izaguirr, 24, was killed early in the morning on Wednesday, June 24, 2015. She and Vasquez were both from New Brunswick, and they had dated, but broken up. He couldn't let it go. That day, Vasquez followed his Alicia from her new boyfriend's house. He was driving a 2004 silver Volkswagen Passat, which he borrowed from a friend specifically to trail her, police said.

He waited for her while she stopped at Dunkin' Donuts and fired at her car when she turned onto Docks Corner Road in South Brunswick. He missed.

He then proceeded to follow her into the parking lot at the Prologis Industrial Park at 241 Docks Corner Road, where the young woman worked. He walked up to her car window and shot her twice in the head. It was 7 a.m. and the parking lot was empty at the time.

Martinez was pronounced dead at the scene.

Vasquez fled the area. The Volkswagen Passat was later found abandoned. He was traced the next day to New Hope, Pa., where he was arrested.

It was the first murder in South Brunswick since 2008 and the first murder by gunfire in more than 20 years.

Vasquez was convicted for first-degree murder. The sentences on the stalking and possession charges were merged into the life sentence. In addition, the judge ordered that the defendant have no contact with her family.

Vasquez received jail credit for the 937 days he was incarcerated from June 27, 2015 to July 17, 2018.

Martinez's family say they want her to be remembered as a hard-working young immigrant, who came to the U.S. ultimately for a better life. Originally from Honduras, she moved here when she was 15 and lived in New Brunswick. She and Vasquez dated for a while, but they broke up.

"She worked when she came to this country," Martinez's cousin, Clary Izaguirre Martinez, told Patch. "She went to school, she studied and she had permission to work, so she worked also. She was very good person. A very cheerful person; she never did anything to anyone. She was beautiful."

Top photo of Giver Vasquez from the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office.