Ex-politician Robert Telles' guilty verdict brings "justice for slain journalists" across the world, according to the victim's former employer.
Despite pleading not guilty and testifying during his trial, Telles was convicted Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, according to CNN, NBC News, and the Associated Press.
The jury's decision "brought a measure of justice for slain journalists around the world," LVRJ Executive Glenn Cook wrote on X, shortly after. "Our jobs are increasingly risky and sometimes dangerous. In many countries, the killers of journalists go unpunished. Not so in Las Vegas. Our thanks to police and prosecutors, whose diligent work won this conviction."
"Let's also remember that this community has lost much more than a trusted journalist. Jeff was a good man who left behind a family who loved him and friends who cherished him. His murder remains an outrage. He is missed."
Telles faces up to life in prison for the "willful, deliberate and premeditated" murder of the journalist, who prosecutors said was driven to kill because he was upset with German's unfavorable coverage of him, reporting on his hostility in the workplace and an inappropriate relationship with a staffer at the Clark County Public Administrator's Office, CNN reported.
German was working on an upcoming story involving Telles when he was murdered.
Telles hid outside German's home, dressed in disguise, and lunged at the victim with a knife when he arrived, prosecutors said.
