Tuesday, October 18, 2022, Torri Anne Gibbs appeared for sentencing on a count of Accessory to Manslaughter, a Category D Felony, and a charge of Destroying or Concealing Evidence, a Gross Misdemeanor.
Gibbs was originally arrested, on February 24, 2022 as a result of a Criminal Complaint from Justice Court charging her with being a Principal to First Degree Felony Murder with the use of a Firearm, Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Principal to Discharging Firearm at or into Occupied Structure, and Destroying or Concealing Evidence in the death of Sean Green. According to the criminal complaint, Gibbs did “directly or indirectly counsel, encourage, hire, command, induce or otherwise procured Robert Shannon Collins, Jr. to willful, deliberate, and premediated kill Sean Green by shooting him multiple times with a handgun,” on or about March 25, 2020. The complaint alleges she did, “conceal a gun magazine in a hidden compartment in a vehicle.”
Collins was sentenced October 4, 2022. (See the October 7 edition of The Fallon Post or read the story online at TheFallonPost.org.)
ADA Chelsea Sanford, speaking for the state, requested Gibbs be sentenced to the maximum prison sentence allowed. Sanford said, "While she sits in prison, the state hopes the defendant will be forced to understand her criminal conduct - it has consequences. The state hopes the defendant will be forced to understand the human toll of her actions, the impact of this criminal conduct, and the sad, sad ripple effect it will have forever. This is meager compared to the value of Sean's life and the future that was robbed from him and his children." The crime committed by Gibbs will forever shape multiple lives. Sanford told the court that Gibbs decided to go to the victim's home that night, her cell phone showed she was circling the home before the event. "She didn't warn Sean about what was going to happen, what they were doing." Sanford said the defendant's actions took this away from Sean, his community, his friends, his family, and his children. “Life and time are exceedingly valuable. That is why the state is asking for time in prison. No probation. No rehab. Time, Your Honor."
Public Defender Jacob Sommer told the court, "What is abundantly clear is that there is pain and there is suffering, there is mistake." He said nothing the court can do will ease or take away the pain, "it will not undo what has already been done." Sommer said Gibbs has been engaged in counseling several times a week in September and October. She is trying to make changes and would like the opportunity to pay the restitution. "There are no words to describe the sorrow that is felt by everyone in this case." He asked the court to grant the defendant the privilege of probation.
Gibbs apologized to Sean's family for "my lack of action" and said she understands they have suffered and endured an incomprehensible amount of pain because of this. She told the court she apologizes for her actions. "I have made mistakes in my life, but I am dedicated to bettering myself and my life." Gibbs concluded with the hope the court would consider probation.
Sean Green’s daughter, Olivia, spoke via Zoom. "Torri Gibbs willfully and successfully aided Robert Collins in the murder of my father and the destruction of critical evidence." She asked Gibbs why she didn't call an ambulance and why she "drove around for hours getting rid of evidence and googling what the death penalty was?" Olivia said if the defendant felt true remorse for her involvement "we could have achieved true justice for my father with your testimony." For her family to truly heal she asked the court to hand down the maximum sentence for "the measly charges brought against the defendant and let karma do the rest."
Sean Green’s sister-in-law, Starla Green, who is now the adoptive mother of Green's minor son spoke tearfully, telling Gibbs, “You have taken so much from us, and it wasn't yours to take." She cannot understand how Gibbs could go from being romantically involved with Sean to being involved in taking his life. "I listened night after night to a young boy, who was heartbroken and devastated himself by the loss of his father, pray by name for the very people that took his father's life." It is her prayer the "court is fair and just and that you are given the maximum consequence for your action."
Stockard sentenced Gibbs to 16-48 months in the Nevada State Prison on the charge of Accessory to Manslaughter, and 152 days in the Churchill County Jail on the charge of Destroying or Concealing Evidence, to be served consecutively, with 152 days credit for time served. Gibbs was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $3,412.41, and was remanded to the custody of the Sheriff for imposition of the sentence.
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