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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lancaster County, PA) A man from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to two life sentences on Friday for killing his wife and his wife’s aunt and shooting his son during a fight over who would make dinner. According to the Lancaster County district attorney’s office, sixty-four-year-old Santiago Payano-Sanchez fatally shot his wife, 59-year-old Ana Gutierrez-Cedano, and her aunt, 74-year-old Dominga Cedano-Cedano, at a home on Oak Hollow Drive in West Hempfield Township on October 5th, 2025 and two children, ages 2 and 7, were also inside the home during the shooting, but were not injured. Payano-Sanchez also shot his 33-year-old son in the stomach and even though his son survived, Lancaster County Assistant District Attorney Jessica Collo told the court that the shootings happened after a “senseless” argument over who would make dinner that night. Officials stated that the adult son was shot after he tried to wrestle the gun away from his father. Judge Jeffrey Conrad sentenced Payano-Sanchez to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, plus 20 to 40 years, in state prison. The Lancaster County Attorney’s Office also confirmed that Payano-Sanchez pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal homicide, one count each of attempted criminal homicide and related charges in connection with the fatal shootings.