Sentencing trial for man who murdered 5 women at Sebring bank enters 3rd day
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The sentencing trial for convicted murderer Zephen Xaver entered its third day on Wednesday. Xaver faces the death penalty or life in prison after he entered a Suntrust b… The sentencing trial for convicted murderer Zephen Xaver, who faces the death penalty or life imprisonment for murdering five women at a Suntrust bank in Sebring, Florida, has entered its third day. The trial began Monday with prosecutors playing a 911 call between Xaver and a dispatcher, who spent 45 minutes on the phone with him trying to prevent him from committing suicide. The jury also heard testimony from a former bank teller who escaped during his lunch break to report the shooting.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The sentencing trial for convicted murderer Zephen Xaver entered its third day on Wednesday.
Xaver faces the death penalty or life in prison after he entered a Suntrust bank in Sebring and fatally shot five women in 2019. He said the voices in his head told him to do it.
The trial began Monday with prosecutors playing a 911 call between Xaver and a dispatcher, who took the stand and recounted the harrowing experience. She spent 45 minutes on the phone with him, attempting to keep him from taking his own life in a back room of the bank.
Jurors heard emotional testimony from a former bank teller on Tuesday who was on his lunch break and escaped to a nearby home to report the shooting. They also heard from a man who walked up to the bank shortly after the women were murdered.
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