The Latest: Jurors convict New Mexico man in deaths of 2 transients beaten with cinder blocks
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The latest on the trial of a man charged with the beating deaths of two homeless men (all times local):
2:15 p.m.
A jury has convicted a 20-year-old man of beating two homeless men to death with cinder blocks and other items as they slept last year in New Mexico.
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Jurors found Alex Rios guilty of two counts of second-degree murder Wednesday after hearing gruesome details about the attack on 44-year-old Allison Gorman and 46-year-old Kee Thompson in a vacant lot in Albuquerque in July 2014.
Rios had faced multiple charges, including two counts of first-degree murder.
Police say Rios and two teens killed the men, who were both Navajo. The attack led the city's mayor to establish a task force on Native American homelessness, though prosecutors have not said the victims were targeted because of their race.
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The youngest of the three suspects was 15 at the time of the attack and agreed to testify against the others in a plea agreement.