May 6, 2022
WEST PALM BEACH — A jury Friday
found Euri Jenkins, accused of hiring a hitman to kill his pregnant wife in a scheme to collect on an insurance policy, guilty of first-degree murder.
Jurors deliberated for less than an hour Friday – and about three hours in total since their deliberations began Thursday – before returning their verdict in the June 29, 2017, death of Makeva Jenkins at the family's home near Lantana.
Circuit Court Judge Kirk Volker immediately sentenced Jenkins to life in prison.
An intruder killed Makeva Jenkins, an entrepreneur and a mom of three, at her home in June 2017. Prosecutors say her husband Euri Jenkins hired him.
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