Bay Area man sentenced to life for strangling man to death with dog choke chain during robbery

A 29-year-old Vallejo man will spend the rest of his life behind state prison bars for a 2018 murder and robbery in a Vallejo motel.

During a Monday afternoon hearing in Vallejo, Solano County Superior Court Judge John B. Ellis sentenced Devonte Levan Hicks to life without the possibility of parole for killing Gerardo Suarez-Marin.

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