DETROIT (AP) - A jury has convicted a Detroit area man in the strangulation of a neighbor in her suburban home.
The Wayne County prosecutor’s office says Myron Williams was found guilty Thursday of first-degree felony murder and unarmed robbery in the slaying of Sabrina Gianino.
The 35-year-old Gianino was found dead last May in Grosse Pointe Park, just east of the Detroit city limit. Williams was staying with a relative who lived next door to Gianino.
Sentencing is scheduled on April 8. Michigan law sets a mandatory sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole for first-degree murder.
Defense attorney Charles Longstreet II says Williams maintains his innocence and will file an appeal.
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