This afternoon, a jury decided Medina was right and found him guilty of the second-degree murder of his 27-year-old wife, Jennifer Alfonso. Medina told police in a videotaped statement he shot his wife during a fight in which she threatened him with a knife.
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Derek Medina/via Facebook A dead woman’s bloody body lay sprawled out on a kitchen floor in a gruesome photo posted to her husband’s Facebook page.
Medina’s story got weirder as his trial neared: earlier this month his attorney said his client “lived in fear of her drug abuse, violent tendencies and even Satan worship”.
Medina, who appeared as an extra on USA’s drama “Burn Notice”, went upstairs, where Alfonso’s 10-year-old daughter was sleeping, and grabbed his gun to shoot his wife.
Medina faces life in prison if convicted of murder in the August 2013 killing, although jurors could opt for the lesser charge of manslaughter. She had a big knife, his lawyers claimed, although the home’s surveillance footage didn’t show her wielding one. “Far, far too often this kind of domestic violence leads to injury and death”.
This is also the line of defense that his attorney, Saam Zangeneh, insisted on during the court trial. He claimed that Alonso had been punching him, and he’d killed her in self-defense.
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.
Prosecutors were expected to seek a life sentence at a hearing set for January.
South Florida’s first couple of music, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, were honored at the White House Tuesday. Moreno said he found the girl upstairs in a bedroom watching television with the volume up loud.
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Medina wrote on Facebook shortly before turning himself in: “I’m going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife”. Medina’s behavior was so transparent that not even in “Stand Your Ground” insane Florida did his woe-is-me defense fly.
