Derek Medina, is led out of the courtroom after he was found guilty of second-degree murder, Wednesday November 25, 2015 in Miami.
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Jurors on Tuesday night got the case of 33-year-old Derek Medina after more than two weeks of testimony.
A jury found a Florida man guilty of second-degree murder after he killed his wife and posted a photo of her blood-spattered body on Facebook.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle issued a statement of sympathy for the victim’s family.
Medina and Alfonso had a tumultuous relationship, marrying and divorcing and then marrying again, court records show. He is accused of murdering his wife in August 2013 and then posting a photo of her body on Facebook.
Afterward, “he is calmly gathering his sweatshirt and stopping to take pictures” of her dead body to post on social media on an August morning in 2013, prosecutor Leah Klein told the dozen jurors during closing arguments.
Medina also had a history of writing several oddly titled self-help-themed e-books, including the tomes How I Saved Someone’s Life and Marriage and Family Problems Thru Communication and World Just Ask Yourself Why We Are Living a Life Full of Lies and How I an Emotional Writer Made All of My Professional Dreams Come True Blocking Society’s Teachings.
He said his wife was threatening him with a knife when he shot her in their home in Miami, but prosecutors said she was cowering on the floor.
Medina’s sentencing is scheduled for January 11.
“I just want to spend time with him but I’m not going to beg”, she wrote shortly before her death. He is also charged with illegal discharge of a firearm inside a building and with child neglect because Alfonso’s 10-year-old daughter was in an upstairs bedroom when her mother was killed. Prosecutors say Medina killed Alfonso because she threatened to leave him and that she had no knife.
Medina had admitted to police that he was arguing with his wife in the kitchen before going upstairs to fetch his pistol and returning to confront her again.
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The “Facebook Killer” also tried claiming that he lived in fear of Alfonso’s drug abuse, violent tendencies and Satan worship.
