Man sentenced to life in prison for killing West Palm Beach school custodians

Javier Burgos pleads guilty to 2 counts of first-degree murder

Javier Burgos pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A man accused of killing two custodians at a South Florida school in 2013 has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty.

Javier Burgos, 57, pleaded guilty last week to two counts of first-degree murder with a firearm in the deaths of Ted Orama, 56, of Greenacres, and Christopher Marshall, 48, of West Palm Beach.

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Their bodies were found on the morning of June 19, 2013, by another custodian at Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in downtown West Palm Beach.

A Palm Beach County judge on Monday accepted the terms of the plea deal and sentenced Burgos to life in prison.

Burgos was named a suspect in the murders in 2014, but he fled to Colombia. He was extradited back to the U.S. in May and confessed to the murders.