Man who posted photo of dead wife found guilty of murder

Derek Medina is accused of killing his wife and then posting a picture of her body on Facebook.

Medina’s defence, who deferred making an opening statement, argued that Ms Alfonso abused drugs, battered her husband and was involved in Satan worship.

The 12-panel jury also found Medina guilty of firing a deadly missile and child neglect as the verdict was read Wednesday.

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, who killed his wife and posted a photo of the bloody corpse on Facebook, was convicted after failing to convince a jury that he shot her eight times in self-defense. Prosecutors allege Medina shot his wife coldly during an argument and that he was an accomplished boxer with little to fear from his wife.

Medina showed absolutely no emotion as he was handcuffed and led back to jail, where he has been held since the killing.

Medina will be sentenced on January 11, 2016. His attorney said he will appeal the conviction. “He wasn’t going to lose by letting her leave as she said she was going to do”, Klein said. If he had been convicted of first-degree murder as initially charged – which requires proof of planning and premeditation – the life sentence would have been automatic.

Medina was the typical abuser who got angry when his wife said she wanted to leave him – then to further injure her, exploited her in death.

Afterward, he posted two messages on Facebook, acknowledging he had killed her. “What they were doing in that kitchen was having an argument”. The girl did not witness the attack but was alone while Medina went to turn himself in to police.

Prosecutors didn’t buy the self-defense argument, and neither did jurors.

The state rested its case last Wednesday after an associate medical examiner testified that bullet trajectories and wounds to the neck and upper chest show Alfonso was kneeling in a cowering position when she was killed by a flurry of bullets.

“I’m going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife”, Medina posted.