A Connecticut man has been convicted of murder in the stray-bullet killing of the mother of a two-time Olympian rifle shooter from Puerto Rico
FILE - Yarimar Mercado Martinez, of Puerto Rico, competes during the women's 50-meter Rifle 3 Positions qualification, at the Olympic Shooting Center, during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Aug. 11, 2016. A Connecticut jury found Franklin Robinson guilty on Friday, July 21, 2023, in the death of Mabel Martinez Antongiorgi, the mother of two-time Olympian rifle shooter Yarimar Mercado Martinez. of the mother of a two-time Olympian rifle shooter from Puerto Rico..
“Why you? Why this way? You were just sitting in your little house sewing, as you always did,” she wrote. The three shot up a car parked on Martinez Antongiorgi's street, thinking the man was inside it, according to testimony. Another bystander was wounded but survived. His defense questioned the credibility of a key witness: Robinson's now-former girlfriend, Emily Dyer.
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