Former Wall Street Computer Tech Convicted In 2011, Bronx Drug Murder
NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) -- A former Wall Street computer technician turned drug-addict accused of murder learned his fate on Friday.
A desperate heroin addiction and a desperate act of violence led to a murder conviction for 31-year-old Alexis Sanchez. He had graduated from a Bronx High School and went to work at Goldman Sachs as a computer technician.
Former Wall Street Computer Tech Convicted In 2011, Bronx Drug Murder
In November 2011, Sanchez was out of the job, an addict looking for a fix. He knew he was $35 short when he went to go meet his drug dealer, Stephen Mari, so he took a gun and blasted away at the drug dealer and left him to die in an alleyway down the block from his old high school.
Sanchez sped off in his mother's SUV thinking he had gotten away with murder. He was caught 9 months later and claimed that the drug pusher had threatened him with a gun because he was short on money, and that he wrestled Stephen Mari in self-defense. The jury didn't buy it.
