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May 10, 2015
Lee Turner Jr., 25, should be executed for murdering two people at a CarQuest auto parts store in Baton Rouge in 2011, a jury determined Friday.
It took a little less than 2 hours for the jury of 10 women and two men to decide Turner should die for the deaths of Edward Gurtner, 43, and Randy Chaney, 54, on March 27, 2011. All three were CarQuest employees: Turner was newly hired when he robbed the store on Airline Highway and fatally shot the men.
A row of Turner’s family members sobbed as the sentence was read, and one young man collapsed in tears between the benches and had to be escorted from the courtroom. Turner said nothing, but could be seen wiping his eyes.
Turner will be formally sentenced by a judge in August.