Former LA police officer accused of fatally shooting a man at a bar and then fleeing to Mexico in 2015 was convicted by a jury this week, prosecutors said.
He was convicted Wednesday of second-degree murder for the March 13, 2015, shooting death of Salome Rodriguez outside a bar in Pomona, east of Los Angeles.
Solis fled to Mexico after the killing, where he was arrested about two months later. Federal authorities said Solis’ father walked his son into Mexico using a pedestrian bridge at the Paso Del Norte border crossing in Texas and thenSolis' defense attorneys argued that Solis acted in self-defense in the fatal shooting, but that was rejected by jurors who convicted him, NBC Los Angeles reported. Rodriguez was a 23-year-old truck driver.
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