Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A jury on Wednesday afternoon recommended that a judge sentence Bessman Okafor to death for the 2012 killing of 19-year-old Alex ...

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FDLE INVESTIGATES. S. A JUROR IN A HIGH PROFILE MURDER CASE IS EXPECTED TO FACE SOME SERIOUS CHARGES. WE’VE BEEN COVERING THE RESENTENCING TRIAL FOR BESSMAN OKAFOR. HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING A ...

A judge has accepted a jury’s recommendation to put Bessman Okafor back on death row. On Monday, a judge handed down that sentence more than a decade after Okafor murdered 19-year-old Alex Zaldivar.

COMING UP NEXT I WHEN I SEE YOU. ALL RIGHT KIM, THANK YOU. RIGHT NOW, A CONVICTED MURDERER HAD HIS LAST CHANCE TO ASK A JUDGE TO SPARE HIS LIFE. BEST FOR WAS IN COURT THIS MORNING AFTER A JURY ...

NEWS STARTS NOW. THE TRIAL OF A MAN FOUND GUILTY OF MURDERING A WITNESS WHO WAS SET TO TESTIFY AGAINST HIM IN A HOME INVASION CASE FOCUSED ON BRAIN SCANS TODAY. BESSMAN OKAFOR HAD BEEN ON DEATH ROW ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — It’s been nearly a decade since 19-year-old Alex Zaldivar was executed by convicted killer Bessman Okafor at his Ocoee home. Okafor was sentenced to death, but the state Supreme ...

ORLANDO POLICE OR CRIME LINE. THE MAN CONVICTED OF KILLING A TEENAGER MORE THAN A DECADE AGO IN OCOEE. HOPES FOR A BETTER OUTCOME IN COURT TODAY. BESSMAN OKAFOR WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN 2015. BUT AS ...

Bessman Okafor, convicted of killing a 19-year-old witness in 2012, might not face another jury to decide whether he should live or die until early 2020, eight years after the murder. “To me, it’s ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — An Orange County judge decided not to give convicted killer Bessman Okafor the death penalty after the Florida Supreme Court reversed a previous ruling. Okafor is convicted in the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A jury on Wednesday afternoon recommended that a judge sentence Bessman Okafor to death for the 2012 killing of 19-year-old Alex Zaldivar. That was the second time a jury had ...