Man Who Posted Dead Wife's Body On Facebook Faces 25 Years In Prison

A husband who killed his wife and later posted a photograph of her body on Facebook was found guilty of second-degree murder.
Derek Medina shot his wife, Jennifer Alonso, eight times in their family house in August 2013. He then posted a photo of her body on his Facebook page with a note asking for understanding of his actions.

Derek Medina and Jennifer Alfonso are seen together in this Facebook photograph

“Im going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife love you guys miss you guys takecare Facebook people you will see me in the news. My wife was punching me and I’m not going to stand anymore with the abuse so I did what I did I hope u understand me,” he wrote.
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Later Medina accused he had suffered years of physical abuse from his 27-year-old wife. Giving the deatils of the  blood-curdling incident, he said that the last time they were arguing things got out of control, as she threatened him with a knife and he had nothing to do but to shoot her in self-defense.

Medina admitted in the police statement taking a cellphone photo of his dead wife’s body and uploading it to his Facebook page

After the murder Medina reportedly drove to see his family and then surrendered himself to police.When officers arrived at the crime scene, they found Alonso’s lifelss body lying on the floor. The couple’s little daughter was still in the house during the killing.

“No family should ever have to see their daughter killed and then exhibited world-wide on the internet like some macabre trophy to a husband’s anger as was Jennifer Alfonso,” Miami Dade State’s Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in a statement.

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A post from a Facebook profile identified as belonging to Derek Medina says ‘Im going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife’

Despite defense lawyer’s version of self-defense, the prosecution insists that Medina threatened to kill Mrs Alfonso if she tried to leave him and he brought his plan into action. They also pointed out that Medina could have easily overpowered his small wife without shooting her.
Medina faces a sentence of 25 years to life imprisonment for the murder. If he had been convicted of first-degree murder as initially charged – which requires proof of planning and premeditation – the life sentence would have been automatic.