Gunmen get life in prison for killing U.S. consulate worker, 2 others in Mexico after mistaking them for rival gang members

Two gunmen with the Barrio Azteca gang were sentenced to life imprisonment Monday for killing a U.S. consulate worker, her husband and the husband of another consulate worker in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, officials said.

The pair had been found guilty by a federal jury in February of the fatal March 2010 shootings of consulate worker Leslie Enriquez, her husband Arthur Redelfs, an El Paso County jailer, and Jorge Salcido Ceniceros. Both were sentenced Monday in El Paso, according to a U.S. Attorney's Office statement.

The victims were returning home from a children's birthday party when they were mistakenly targeted and killed, prosecutors said.