Man found guilty of killing Kenosha deputy
A Racine County jury this afternoon found Ezequiel Lopez-Quintero http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=132’s Deputy Frank Fabiano Jr.
Lopez-Quintero, 45, an illegal immigrant living in Kenosha, faces a mandatory life sentence for the conviction of first-degree intentional homicide and up to an additional five years for use of a dangerous weapon.
Fabiano, a former U.S. Marine and an 18-year veteran of the sheriff’s department, was gunned down on the night of May 16, 2007, while attempting a routine traffic stop in the town of Somers.
Defense Attorney Frederick Cohn had admitted in opening arguments that his client, Lopez-Quintero, probably fired the fatal shots, but Cohn argued that Lopez-Quintero was too drunk the night of the shooting to have done it intentionally. After driving to Chicago to buy a gun from gang members in a parking lot, Lopez-Quintero drank two bottles of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=256 and used cocaine prior to the shooting, Cohn said.Cohn argued that his client did not recall shooting Fabiano.
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