NORWALK, Calif. (AP) - A Southern California man has been convicted of murder for hiring a hit man to kill his 17-year-old wife more than two decades.
City News Service says 43-year-old Morrad Ghonim was convicted Monday of arranging the death of his wife, Victoria, in 1992.
She was shot to death while sitting in a car with her husband and 6-month-old son in a La Mirada park.
Ghonim reported the killing as a botched robbery.
The case languished for two decades until 2009, when DNA linked Leon Martinez to the killing.
He was convicted in 2015 of first-degree murder and testified at Ghonim’s trial that he was paid $5,000 to kill the man’s wife. Ghonim was arrested last year while living in Antigua.
He could life without chance of parole.
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