A salesman who shot and killed the man he was trying to sell a product to will have sixty years in prison to bone up on his sales skills, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
Richard Amezquita knocked on the door of a home in Stone Oak in November of 2015, as he was going door to door selling home security systems.
When the homeowner, 53 year old Kerry O'Toole, answered the door, he pointed out to Amezquita that there was a 'no soliciting' sign prominently on the front of his home, and he told Amezquita to get lost.
Amezquita, who was described in the courtroom by his ex wife and two former girlfriends as a violent man, apparently went ballistic, going to his car, grabbing a handgun, and shooting O'Toole in the head.
The jury didn't buy Amezquita's claim that O'Toole, who was respected in the neighborhood for his carpentry and handy-man skills, beat and chocked him, and even through rocks at him. Evidence at the scene did not back up Amezquita's claims of self-defense.
Amezauita could have gotten up to 99 years in prison.
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