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Article: Jury finds man guilty in fatal shooting in St. Paul; Lee Murray showed no emotion when the verdict was read and the jury polled. The victim, Leon May, was shot outside his home during an alleged robbery in December.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Byline: PAT PHEIFER; STAFF WRITER
It took the jury 2 1/2 days to sift through 177 pieces of evidence in the Lee D. Murray trial before finding him guilty Thursday in Ramsey County District Court of second-degree murder in the death of Leon May on St. Paul's East Side.
May, 32, was shot 17 times and died on the back stoop of his home in the 400 block of E. Jessamine Street shortly before midnight on Dec. 11, 2008. He had refused to turn over his house keys to Murray and his accomplices because May's family was inside.
Sarah Banashuk, May's girlfriend and the mother of his 10-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter, didn't get to court in time to ...