Man convicted after posting photo of wife’s body on Facebook

A man who posted a photo of his wife’s corpse on Facebook after shooting her eight times has been convicted of second-degree murder.

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.

Questioned by police at the time he admitted taking a mobile phone photograph of Jennifer Alfonso’s bloody body before uploading it on the social networking site.

In his note, Medina accused his wife of abusing him and asked his friends for their understanding for what he did to her because of it.

“No family ought to ever should see their daughter killed after which exhibited world-broad on the web like some macabre trophy to a husband’s anger as was Jennifer Alfonso”, State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle stated in a press release.

After she was killed in August 2013, Medina uploaded a photo of the wife’s body on his public Facebook page.

Prosecutor Leah Klein said in her closing argument that Medina coldly shot his wife at close range as she likely was cowering on her knees rather than punching and shoving him as he claimed. “I don’t know if they would have been swayed if we would have had our crime scene re-constructionist being able to explain shadow placement, which would have buttressed our position that she had a knife”.

The couple had a stormy relationship, court records showed.

Medina’s sentencing has been scheduled for January.

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.

Attorneys for Derek Medina had argued the killing of 27-year-old Jennifer Alfonso was self-defense. “Take care. Facebook people you’ll see me in the news”.

The second-degree murder conviction means that Medina, 33, faces a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.