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Florida man, Omar Rodriguez killed neighbor over dog poop, lashes out at victims wife in Miami courtroom
[NYPOST] A Florida man cruelly yelled that his neighbor ''cried like a baby'' in front of the man's widow, explaining during a wild, caught-on-camera courtroom outburst why he killed him.

Omar Rodriguez was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after he was convicted of second-degree murder and aggravated assault for the June 2015 shooting of Jose Rey.
That’s nine years ago. What took so long?
As Rey's widow, Lissette, read a statement at the hearing, Rodriguez rose from his chair and began shouting, causing several people in the courtroom to gasp.

''The coward was your husband,'' Rodriguez yelled out, according to a video obtained by NBC Miami. ''That's why I killed him — he cried like a baby.''

Several law enforcement officers pulled Rodriguez out of the courtroom and placed him in a holding cell as he continued shouting furiously.

Moments earlier, Lissette Rey had pleaded with Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Milton Hirsch to give Rodriguez the maximum sentence.

''I beg Your Honor, the harshest sentence imposed to the coward, the murderer,'' she said.

After the handcuffed, orange prison suit-clad Rodriguez was removed, Rey continued her statement as the murderer's voice rang throughout the courthouse.

''I wish though the death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
 would have been on the table, but at the end of the day, Mr. Rodriguez will continue to see his family, they will be able to see him, I'll never get to see my husband again,'' Lissette Rey said. ''I wasn't listening to exactly to what he was saying, I was tuning him out, I was just reading my thoughts. His words are irrelevant. He is irrelevant in my life right now. He's pond scum.''

The jury in Rodriguez's case had removed the possibility of capital punishment, leaving Hirsch the only option for a life prison sentence, with a minimum of 25 years, meaning the 75-year-old will remain behind bars for the rest of his life.

While Rodriguez wasn't giving the sentence Lissette Rey was looking for, she still wished ill toward her husband's killer.
Posted by: Fred 2024-08-17
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