A Florida man who posted a gruesome picture of his wife’s blood-stained body on Facebook was convicted Wednesday of second- degree murder in her death. Prosecutors say Medina killed Alfonso because she threatened to leave him and that she had no knife.
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As much as I wanted to denounce his heinous crime, I resisted the temptation when he murdered his wife two summers ago and announced it to the world, posting the picture of her bullet-riddled body on Facebook.
“The jury carefully viewed all the evidence and came to the correct conclusion that Derek Medina coldly murdered his wife to heal his own injured ego”.
Medina faces life in prison if convicted of murder in the August 2013 killing, although jurors could opt for the lesser charge of manslaughter. He is expected to be sentenced for a minimum of 25 years when the hearing takes place in January.
Jurors got the case of 33-year-old Derek Medina on Tuesday but did not reach a verdict. Medina’s behavior was so transparent that not even in “Stand Your Ground” insane Florida did his woe-is-me defense fly. He noted video from a surveillance camera showing part of the kitchen and possibly the handle of a knife, as well as the daughter’s statement that she heard Medina trying to calm her mother down. “He planned to execute Jen, and he executed his plan”.
The couple’s young daughter was still in the house, police have said.
Medina eventually turned himself in to police.
Trial testimony showed the couple began fighting in their upstairs bedroom because Medina had failed to wake up his wife early that morning to watch a movie, as he had promised.
A 2013 medical expert’s report found Medina shot Alfonso at a downward angle at level-clean vary.
The “Facebook Killer” also tried claiming that he lived in fear of Alfonso’s drug abuse, violent tendencies and Satan worship.
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“Im going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife love you guys miss you guys takecare Facebook people you will see me in the news”, he purportedly wrote.
