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Teen found guilty of 2004 murder
A jury convicted Laisha Landrum in the beating death of 16-year-old Emily Clemons in Tampa.
By STAFF WRITER
Published January 13, 2006
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Laisha Landrum, 18.
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Emily Clemons was 16 years old when she died after being beaten and thrown into a trash can in June 2004. |
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TAMPA - A Hillsborough County jury on Friday found Laisha Landrum guilty of second-degree murder in the June 2004 brutal killing of Emily Clemons.
Both girls were 16 at the time and allegedly had been seeing the same man, Rocky Almestica, Jr.
Investigators claimed Landrum and Almestica lured Clemons to a north Tampa apartment and beat her with kitchen pots, a hammer and a radio, then rolled the girl's body up in a blanket and tossed her in a garbage bin.
A jury convicted Almestica of second-degree murder in November 2004, and a judge sentenced him to life in prison. Landrum, now 18, could face the same fate when she is sentenced Feb. 20.
[Last modified January 13, 2006, 16:51:03]
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