WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th November, 2018) The Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville, located in the eastern US state of Maryland, found two more suspects guilty of murdering two schoolboys, including Russian national Artem Ziberov, local media reported on Tuesday, citing Montgomery County State's attorney.
Four men were initially suspected of murdering 18-year-old Russian student Artem Ziberov and his 17-year-old classmate Shadi Adi Najjar: Rony Galicia, Edgar Garcia-Gaona, Roger Garcia, and Jose Ovilson Canales-Yanez. While� Canales-Yanez was sentenced to death in July, Galicia and Garcia-Gaona were convicted on Monday.
"They [Ziberov and Najjar] were being lured to their own executions ... Everyone who participated in this crime was a shooter," Montgomery County State's Attorney John McCarthy said at a press conference, as quoted by the NBC news broadcaster.
Ziberov and Najjar were found dead in a car in Montgomery Village, Maryland on June 5, 2017, and the medical examiner determined that they had died from multiple gunshot wounds.
While the motives of the murderers have not been revealed, police have said earlier that the motive for Najjar's killing might have been revenge.
Galicia and Garcia-Gaona are set to be sentenced in January 2019.
