Killer Returns After 27 Years in U.S. Prison
From Times Wire Reports
A man whose attorney once argued that television violence led him to kill returned quietly to his native Costa Rica, deported from the United States after 27 years in prison.
Ronny Zamora, 42, had been sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting 83-year-old Elinor Haggart at her Miami Beach home on June 3, 1977. He was 15 at the time. He told reporters: “I am very sorry for what I did.”
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