MIAMI (WSVN) – After a nine-year authorized battle, a Kendall man was discovered responsible of homicide for fatally taking pictures his son’s neighbor following a dispute over a canine defecating in his son’s yard.
Investigators mentioned 75-year-old Omar Rodriguez confronted 52-year-old Jose Rey with a gun and pulled the set off.
The jury verdict got here in Friday, convicting Rodriguez of second-degree homicide and aggravated assault.
“We the jury find as to count one, the defendant is guilty of a lesser included offense of second-degree murder,” mentioned the foreperson. “As to count two, the defendant is guilty as charged on aggravated assault.”
Cameras captured the sufferer’s household sitting within the courtroom because the foreperson learn the decision.
“So say we all, this third day of May 2024, in Miami-Dade County,” mentioned the foreperson.
Rey, a husband and father of two, died days after the taking pictures.
Throughout the trial, Rodriguez selected to not testify.
“On the advice of counsel, I’m not taking the stand,” mentioned Rodriguez.
The case drew to an in depth practically 9 years after Rodriguez’s arrest in June 2015.
Rodriguez’s sentencing date stays unclear.
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