in Rancho Cucamonga, Joe Henry Abbott was sentenced to death for murdering Samuel Saenz...
in Rancho Cucamonga, Joe Henry Abbott was sentenced to death for murdering Samuel Saenz, a security guard, during a bank robbery.
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in Rancho Cucamonga, Joe Henry Abbott was sentenced to death for murdering Samuel Saenz, a security guard, during a bank robbery.
Judge Craig Kamansky handed down the sentence.
Abbott ambushed Saenz, 25, on Oct. 30, 2000, in front of horrified customers at a Bank of America on Euclid Avenue.
The robbery and killing was so detailed that Abbott, a 36-year-old African-American man, paid a professional makeup artist to disguise him as an elderly white man a day earlier.
A jury convicted him of the murder and recommended the death penalty Nov. 2 (see), and Kamansky finalized the deal in West Valley Superior Court.
Judge Craig Kamansky handed down the sentence.
Abbott ambushed Saenz, 25, on Oct. 30, 2000, in front of horrified customers at a Bank of America on Euclid Avenue.
The robbery and killing was so detailed that Abbott, a 36-year-old African-American man, paid a professional makeup artist to disguise him as an elderly white man a day earlier.
A jury convicted him of the murder and recommended the death penalty Nov. 2 (see), and Kamansky finalized the deal in West Valley Superior Court.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: San Gabriel Valley Tribune, 16/02/2006)
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