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December 5, 2021

By Associated Press, The grio

Victor Santana to be sentenced later this month.

…Victor Santana, 65, of Dayton, Ohio will be sentenced later this month after being convicted of murder and felonious assault on Thursday…

Santana shot the two 17-year-olds when he found them inside his detached garage late at night in August 2019, authorities said…

He wanted to use the state’s new “stand your ground” defense but a judge ruled earlier this year that it couldn’t be applied retroactively to the killings of Devin Henderson and Javier Harrison…

Javier Harrison (left) and Devin Henderson (right) (via Dayton Daily News)

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