SEBRING, Fla. (WFLA) — Day 8 of Zephen Xaver’s sentencing trial saw testimony from the adults in his life who were concerned about his mental health when he was a teenager in Indiana. The 27 ...

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Summary Zephen Xaver, 27, was sentenced to death for the 2019 murder of five women in a Sebring, Florida, SunTrust bank. Xaver pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree murder.

The change was adopted after the 2018 Parkland high school shooter could not be sentenced to death for murdering 17 people despite a 9-3 jury vote. McNeill called the new law unconstitutional.

In 2014, his high school principal contacted police after Xaver told others he was having dreams about hurting his classmates. His mother promised to get him psychological help.

Xaver pleaded guilty last year to five counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 65-year-old customer Cynthia Watson; Marisol Lopez, 55, a bank teller coordinator; Ana Pinon-Williams, 38, a ...

The change was adopted after the 2018 Parkland high school shooter could not be sentenced to death for murdering 17 people despite a 9-3 jury vote. McNeill called the new law unconstitutional.

SEBRING, Fla. — A Highlands County jury recommended the death penalty for Zephen Xaver in the case of the shooting deaths of five people inside a Suntrust Bank in 2019.

(AP) — Zephen Xaver walked into a central Florida bank in 2019, fatally shot five women and then called police to tell them what he did. Now 12 jurors will decide whether the 27-year-old former ...