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A jury on Wednesday recommended a former prison guard trainee be sentenced to death for his execution-style murders of five women inside a Florida bank five years ago, a massacre that fulfilled his long-stated desire to kill. Xaver’s victims included customer Cynthia Watson, 65, just married less than a month; bank teller coordinator Marisol Lopez, 55, a mother of two; …
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A Florida man has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting five women at a small-town bank branch in 2019 and will face either life in prison or a death sentence during the penalty phase next year. Xaver admitted shooting four employees of a SunTrust Bank branch and one customer on Jan. 23, 2019. “Aside from perhaps driving …
