Two years ago, Derek Medina posted on Facebook a chilling photo of his wife’s slumping, lifeless body with the caption “I’m going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife”.
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The verdict Wednesday came at the end of the trial for 33-year-old Derek Medina. “He was angry and he wanted her dead”.
On the day Alfonso died, the couple fought, after which Medina retrieved a.380-caliber pistol from his bed room and shot her repeatedly in a premeditated act of murder, prosecutors informed jurors in the course of the trial.
Medina showed no emotion.
He then went on to upload the photo of the corpse on Facebook, with the chilling caption, “RIP Jennifer Alfonso”.
Medina wrote on Facebook shortly earlier than turning himself in: “I’m going to jail or dying sentence for killing my spouse”.
Medina faces life in prison if convicted of murder in the August 2013 killing. Prosecutors allege Medina shot his wife coldly during an argument and that he was an accomplished boxer with little to fear from his wife. The girl did not witness her mother’s death.
“She’s lying on the kitchen floor, soaked in her blooded clothing, and he puts on fresh clothes before he leaves”, Klein said.
Medina was also convicted of illegally firing a weapon inside a dwelling and with child neglect because Alfonso’s 10-year-old daughter was in the home at the time of the slaying.
“She needed to push Derek, and she or he pushed him too far”, Zangeneh stated in closing statements.
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At trial, Medina’s team of lawyers tried to portray him as a “psychologically and emotionally abused” husband whose wife ultimately attacked him with a knife before he fatally shot her. The defense claimed that the internal surveillance video, which did not capture the shooting itself but depicts snippets of the altercation, shows “the butt of a knife”. They also were unable to get in evidence from a purported “shadow” expert they said indicated two upright figures were fighting in reflections in the kitchen’s stainless steel sink.
