This is the horrific moment a Las Vegas student attempts to rape and strangle his teacher in newly released footage.
Jonathan Martinez-Garcia, 17, was sentenced in June to up to 40 years in prison after he ambushed the teacher – identified only as Sade – by asking him if he was after class at El Dorado High School April 2022 will be allowed to talk about his grades.
Surveillance footage released over the weekend shows Martinez-Garcia standing outside a classroom before fighting with Sade and forcing his way in.
He knocked her unconscious before she later woke up with her pants and underwear down before her student threatened to burn her alive.
The depraved teenager grinned in court as he was sentenced and as his victim recounted his horrific experience.
Videos have finally been released from the day a Las Vegas teenager attempted to rape and strangle his teacher before attempting to slit her wrists
Jonathan Martinez-Garcia, 17, grinned at his conviction as the court heard in harrowing detail how he assaulted the teacher by asking him to talk about his grades after class at El Dorado High School in April 2022 may.
At 3:05 p.m., an hour and a half after the attack allegedly began, Martinez-Garcia leaves the classroom with her head bowed and eventually leaves the school.
Bodycam footage from Clark County School District police officers was also released on 8NewsNow.
The officer can be heard looking at who he believes Garcia-Martinez is and saying, “There may have been a sighting of a suspect.” He just sees the suspect right outside his apartment.”
“Hey, driver, turn off the car.” Turn off the car. Jonathan gets out of the car. Do you know why we are here?' the CCSDPD officer added as he located the teen in a car.
He wears a different outfit than before and answers “No” before being taken into custody.
In surveillance video from that fateful day, Martinez-Garcia is seen stopping outside a classroom around 1:33 p.m. and looking around before being unable to enter the classroom and walking back down the hallway
Martinez-Garcia walked the halls at Eldorado High School in the early afternoon hours before she ended up fighting with Sade.
As she pulled him back into the classroom, prosecutors allege Martinez-Garcia began attacking the teacher
Bodycam footage from Clark County School District police officers was also released showing the teen being stopped by officers
The details of what happened in the classroom and out of view of the camera were detailed during the trial.
Inside the room, the teen waited until the teacher turned his back before attempting to choke her with a “rope or cord.” He then smashed the young woman's head against a table, knocking her unconscious.
When the victim woke up, her pants and underwear had been pulled down. Martinez-Garcia poured something on her, said he was going to set her on fire, and then pushed a bookshelf onto the woman, which he then sat on.
Sade told the judge she believed she was going to die during the horrific ordeal which left her covered in bruises. Sade said at the sentencing that she had been “imprisoned” mentally and physically.
“It only makes sense that he, too, stay in prison as long as possible,” she said, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
The victim, identified as Sade (pictured), told the court: “He beat my body so hard I couldn't fight.”
Martinez-Garcia was sentenced at the Regional Justice Center in Vegas after pleading guilty to attempted murder, attempted sexual assault and assault with the use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm resulting in trauma and multiple injuries to his victim led.
Clark County District Court Judge Kathleen Delaney sentenced Martinez-Garcia to a minimum of 16 years in prison and a maximum of 40 years, the Associated Press reported.
Prosecutors asked the judge to impose a minimum sentence of 22 to 55 years behind bars. But in handing down her sentence, Judge Delaney said she had “balanced the seriousness of the crime with other factors”.
The brutal attack occurred after Martinez-Garcia went into his teacher's classroom after school to discuss his grades. Police said he locked the classroom door before brutally beating her.
The teacher told police she asked Martinez-Garcia why he attacked her and he replied that he “didn't like teachers” and wanted to “get revenge.”
During the attack, Martinez-Garcia attempted to slit the teacher's wrists and told her, “Can't you die already?”
He initially told police he “blacked out” and didn't remember the attack, but later admitted he remembered trying to choke her.
Pictures of some of the brutal injuries Sade suffered were shown in the courtroom.
Sade said: “He hit my body so hard that I couldn’t fight.”
“One day I woke up to find myself trapped under heavy shelves that he toppled over me, leaving me unable to breathe and almost crushing me to death,” she recalls.
“I believed with all my heart and soul that I would die right there under those shelves.”
A close-up of some of the bruises the teacher suffered from the violent attack on April 7, 2022
A photo of El Dorado High School in downtown Las Vegas, where Sade worked as a teacher and Martinez-Garcia was a student
Sade's mother told the judge her daughter was a gregarious woman who came from a family of educators and moved to Las Vegas to start her first job as a teacher.
But since the attack, she has found it difficult to leave her home due to ongoing physical and mental complications.
“For the rest of her life, her last memory of class will be that student who tried to kill her,” Sade's mother told the judge.
Prosecutors said the teacher recalled Martinez-Garcia repeatedly saying, “Why don't you want to die?”
Sade told the judge that she did not return to her teaching job after the attack because she felt mentally and physically “trapped.”
Martinez-Garcia fled after the attack and took the teacher's keys. The teacher was later found by a school employee who called 911.
The teenager was arrested by school police shortly afterwards as he was on his way to an awards ceremony at school.
The judge reprimanded Martinez-Garcia and told him that such an attack on a teacher was completely unacceptable.
“It is the most heinous type of crime possible,” the judge said.
His mother described him as a “good student.” She said he had not been diagnosed with any medical or mental disabilities, but told police he seemed “depressed and disconnected” in recent months.
In the arrest report, Martinez-Garcia spoke to investigators about the attack on his teacher.
He said: “I don't know why I attacked her, she was good to me.”
Martinez-Garcia pictured (far right) with his family. His mother described him as a “good student.” She said he had not been diagnosed with any medical or mental disabilities, but told police he seemed “depressed and disconnected” in recent months
Martinez-Garcia's public defender, Ty Gaston, argued that his behavior was caused by severe side effects of the asthma drug Singulair, which caused mood swings, night terrors and hallucinations.
Singulair maker Merck is facing a series of lawsuits accusing the company of covering up links between its asthma drug and serious effects on patients' mental health.
Assistant District Attorney William Rowles said Wednesday he did not believe the drug's side effect was a valid reason for the attack.
“I firmly believe that there are still certain crimes and certain behaviors that require punishment,” he said.
In April, Martinez-Garcia received a plea agreement that allowed him not to face trial for the after-school attack after pleading guilty to attempted sexual assault and assault with the use of a deadly weapon inflicting substantial bodily harm led.
Other charges against him were also dropped, The Associated Press reported.
At the sentencing, Martinez-Garcia, dressed in navy prison uniform, apologized and said he regretted what he had done.
He said in court that he had no one to blame but himself and that he was willing to “accept the consequences,” KSNV reported.