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Grand jury indict Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera on first-degree murder in the execution of FSU law professor Dan Markel

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h3><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;380404&semi;">41-year-old law professor Dan Markel was shot in the head&comma; execution style&comma; in his garage in the middle of the day&comma; July 2014<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;380404&semi;">Allegations that  bitter divorce and contentious fight for child custody connected to  renowned professor being gunned down in daylight<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;380404&semi;">Sigfredo Garcia&comma; 33&comma; and Luis Rivera&comma; 34&comma; arrested and charged in the case<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;380404&semi;">Investigators believe Markel death was a hit put out by family of  ex-wife&comma; Wendi Adelson&comma; her attempt to move closer to family with sons after  divorce was blocked by court order&comma; prompting Adelson family to recruit Garcia<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;380404&semi;">Leon County grand jurors indicted both Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera on first-degree murder charges in the death of Dan Markel&comma; Friday<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;380404&semi;">Sigfredo Garcia and Luis River both connected to the North Miami head of the Latin Kings gang&period; Garcia knew Markel&&num;8217&semi;s ex&comma; Wendi Adelson&comma; through her brother&comma; Charles&comma; who was  in a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;serious relationship” with the mother of his children<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;380404&semi;">State Attorney Willie Meggs said he would move to keep the grand jury as more arrests in the case are expected&period;<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-36171" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;dan-markel-murder2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"dan markel murder2" width&equals;"1050" height&equals;"812" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Dan Markel&period; Executed gangland style on his garage<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-36172" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;wendi-adelson1&period;png" alt&equals;"wendi adelson1" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"883" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Wendi Adelson&comma; merkel&&num;8217&semi;s ex-wife&period; The couple were involved in bitter divorce and custody battle before the law professor was slain<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"">Leon County grand jurors have heard from Tallahassee Police investigators and a handful of civilians during the second day of proceedings in which prosecutors are seeking indictments for two suspects in the killing of Dan Markel&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sigfredo Garcia&comma; 34&comma; and Luis Rivera&comma; 33&comma; face charges of first-degree murder if indicted by jurors&period; Police say the two men were hired to kill the Florida State University law professor at his home in July 2014&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Leon County grand jurors spent Thursday afternoon hearing evidence against two men accused in the killing of Dan Markel&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Proceedings are expected to extend into Friday to determine whether first-degree murder charges should be brought against Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The two men are suspects in Markel’s July 2014&comma; murder for hire shooting at his Betton Hills home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"module-position-PHqyPZCVJ68" class&equals;"story-asset image-asset">&NewLine;<aside class&equals;"wide single-photo">&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-36173" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;sigfredo-garcia2&period;png" alt&equals;"sigfredo garcia2" width&equals;"529" height&equals;"642" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Sigfredo Garcia whas been remanded in the Leon County jail after he was arrested in connection with the slaying of Dan Markel<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;aside>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"">Jurors heard from Tallahassee Police investigators Thursday&period; Garcia&comma; 34&comma; was arrested May 25 near his Miami home after a lengthy investigation&period; He is in the Leon County Jail&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Rivera&comma; 33&comma; has a warrant for his arrest that is expected to be served in the coming weeks&period; He is a federal inmate at Coleman Federal Correctional Institution near Orlando&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Garcia’s arrest opened a flood of details in the 22-month-old case into Markel’s killing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"module-position-PHqyPZCi01o" class&equals;"story-asset image-asset">&NewLine;<aside class&equals;"single-photo float">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-36174"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-36174" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;luis-rivera1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Luis Rivera1" width&equals;"608" height&equals;"811" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-36174"><strong>Luis Rivera an arrest and indicted in connection with Dan Markel&&num;8217&semi;s daytime slaying in July 2014<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;aside>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Arrest papers for the Miami man say he and Rivera were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;enlisted” to kill Markel&comma; a prominent legal scholar and Florida State University law professor&period; Police say the two men drove from Miami in a rented Toyota Prius&comma; killed Markel then returned to South Florida&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Documents implicate family members of Markel’s ex-wife in his slaying&period; Tallahassee Police the killing is linked to the fallout from his acrimonious divorce from Wendi Adelson&period;A bitter divorce&comma; a contentious fight for child custody&comma; a renowned professor gunned down in his garage in daylight&period; Could they be connected&quest; Investigators think so&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The first unsealed document in the 2014 slaying of Florida State University law professor Daniel Markel lays out what investigators believe was a hit called for by the family of Markel’s ex-wife&comma; South Florida native Wendi Adelson&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Adelson family’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;desperate desire” to move Adelson and her sons to South Florida sparked the killing&comma; prosecutors allege&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The two killers are believed to be the North Miami head of the Latin Kings gang and a Miami Beach felon&comma; whose children’s mother is now in a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;serious relationship” with the ex-wife’s brother&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-36232" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;dan-merkel-house1&period;png" alt&equals;"dan merkel house" width&equals;"736" height&equals;"455" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong>The crime scene&colon; Dan Markel was &&num;8216&semi;executed&&num;8217&semi; in his driveway in broad daylight&comma; July 2014<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Markel was shot in the head in his garage in the middle of the day in July 2014&comma; shocking his upscale Tallahassee neighborhood&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Wendi Adelson and Daniel Markel married in 2006&comma; while she was a third-year law student at the University of Miami and he was a criminal law professor at FSU&period;  Six years and two children later&comma; it ended&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Markel reportedly returned home from a business trip to find his family gone&comma; a majority of the contents of the house missing and the paperwork for dissolution of marriage displayed on his bed&comma;” according to the warrant&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Investigators said Adelson took her sons to her parents in Coral Springs&comma; but at Markel’s protest returned to Leon County to wait out the legal proceedings&period; The fight over custody turned nasty&comma; investigators contend&comma; with emails from Adelson’s mother&comma; Donna&comma; encouraging Wendi to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;coerce Markel into allowing the relocation to South Florida&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Markel fired back&comma; asking a judge to stop his ex-mother-in-law from unsupervised contact with the children&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Markel claimed Donna made disparaging remarks about him to his sons&comma;” read the warrant&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The couple was due for a potentially nasty court battle over the motion when Markel was murdered&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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