Triston Jay Amero

Triston Jay Amero (13 September 1981 – 1 April 2008), also known as Lestat Claudius de Orleans y Montevideo, which he eventually changed to his legal name, was an American who was found guilty of the hotel bombings that killed two people and wounded seven others in La Paz, Bolivia, on March 22, 2006. The bombings damaged two low-rent hotels. A third bombing was stopped.

Biography Amero, who also went by the name John Scheda, was born in Placerville, California, as the son of a California woman and a Saudi Arabian man.

Bombings On 22 March 2006, Amero set off bombs at two independent hotels in Linares and Rioshino, two different locations in La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. He also plotted to place a bomb at the Consulate of Chile, but was arrested before this could happen. Police described him as a "psychopath" who aimed to kill upwards of 200 people.

Aftermath Amero, 24, and his Uruguayan girlfriend, Alda Ribeiro Costa, Amero was sentenced to 30 years in prison without the possibility of parole on January 23, 2008. At the age of 26, Amero died in a hospital on April 1, 2008, after complaining of stomach pains while imprisoned at the in La Paz.