“It’s a awful situation, and there’s no happy ending here”, Carolyn Anderson-Knox told Local 10.
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“She was trying to take me out”, Medina said in the statement.
Derek Medina, is led out of the courtroom after he was found guilty…
Today a jury at the Miami-Dade County Court returned their verdict after two days of deliberations following the two week trial. His attorney, Saam Zangeneh, said there will be an appeal.
Medina’s sentencing is scheduled for January 11. Jurors also have the option of convicting him of second-degree murder or manslaughter, or acquitting him.
He failed to convince the Jury that he shot his wife in self-defense. The evidence, she added, showed that “Derek Medina coldly murdered his wife to heal his own injured ego”. But in the end, it was a moot point with a life sentence hanging over him anyway. 380 calibre pistol into his wife in August 2013.
“He planned to execute Jen, and he executed his plan”, prosecutor Leah Klein said in her closing argument.
Questioned by police at the time he admitted taking a mobile phone photograph of Jennifer Alfonso’s bloody body before uploading it on the social networking site. “I don’t know if they would have been swayed if we would have had our crime scene re-constructionist being able to explain shadow placement, which would have buttressed our position that she had a knife”. “A young lady lost her life, but her actions caused it to happen”. The daughter was upstairs watching TV in her bedroom at the time of the killing. Alfonso’s daughter was home when her mother was killed, but she did not witness the shooting. He claimed Alonso “was an avid user of synthetic drugs such as Ecstasy, that she battered her husband and that she was deeply involved in the occult and Satan worship”. “He said she was punching him”, Ampudia said.
Prosecutors say Medina killed Alfonso because she threatened to leave him. “What they were doing in that kitchen was having an argument”. The couple had a rocky relationship, going through a divorce before getting back together a year before the incident.
Afterward, he posted two messages on Facebook, acknowledging he had killed her.
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Medina wrote on Facebook shortly earlier than turning himself in: “I’m going to jail or dying sentence for killing my spouse”.
