OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man faces sentencing in March after being convicted of killing his estranged wife’s new boyfriend in a 2020 shooting in downtown Omaha.
The Omaha World-Herald reports that a jury deliberated for less than an hour Tuesday before finding 28-year-old Marlon Miranda Jr. guilty of first-degree murder in the June 2020 death of Jose Santos Parra Juarez.
Prosecutor John Alagaban said an off-duty Bellevue officer, Sgt. John Stuck, probably saved Sharon Miranda’s life.
Testimony showed Stuck saw Marlon Miranda grabbing his estranged wife by the hair with one hand while pointing a gun at her with the other. Stuck shot Marlon Miranda twice.
Miranda’s attorney had suggested that Miranda acted in self-defense during a quarrel.