Man convicted in robbery, killing at grocery store
May 5, 2021
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — A federal jury has convicted a Tennessee man in a robbery and killing at a grocery store in southern Kentucky.
Jurors spent about 90 minutes deliberating Monday in U.S. District Court before returning a guilty verdict on all charges against Jorge Santos Caballero-Melgar, 36, of Nashville, the Daily News reported.
Prosecutors presented evidence over five days that Caballero-Melgar orchestrated robberies at businesses in Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina from December 2016 to September 2017, including at La Placita market in Bowling Green where Jose Cruz, 31, was fatally shot while attempting to intervene.