A Florida man, who killed his wife and posted a photo of her dead body on Facebook, was found guilty of second-degree murder on Wednesday.
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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.
On the day Alfonso died, the couple fought, and then Medina retrieved a.380-caliber pistol from his bedroom and shot her repeatedly in a premeditated act of murder, prosecutors told jurors during the trial.
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.
Prosecutors said they will seek the maximum punishment of life imprisonment during a sentencing hearing scheduled for January 11.
“Far, far too often this kind of domestic violence leads to injury and death”, Fernandez Rundle said. He claims self defense.
After killing her he posted the picture of her lifeless body on Facebook writing: “I’m going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife”.
He admitted on an accompanying note to killing her. His attorney said he will appeal the conviction.
Earlier, Medina had also claimed that Alfonso was into “Satan worship” and “drugs”, but that evidence was ruled inadmissible during the trial, according to New York Daily News.
After he killed his wife, authorities say, Medina drove to see his family and then turned himself in to police.
It ended in the kitchen, where Medina claims he was threatened with a knife, leading him to go back upstairs for his gun followed by the fatal shooting.
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. Medina faces a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.
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Klein, the prosecutor, argued that Medina, angry with Alfonso after she threatened to leave him, killed his wife execution-style.
