This story was reported by Camille Botello, Ximena Del Cerro, Ethan Marshall, Dean Moses, Max Parrott, ET Rodriguez, Barbara Russo, Robbie Sequeira and Ethan
Rosario “Ross” Melici, the Lake Worth Beach man convicted last month of murdering his ex-wife’s uncle in Deerfield Beach in 2013, will not be executed for the crime.
A Lake Worth Beach man, convicted of brutally murdering an elderly couple in their Deerfield Beach home in 2013, is asking a Broward judge for permission to represent himself at the penalty phase of his trial, a move that appears designed to end with a death sentence.
Rosario “Ross” Melici is guilty of first-degree murder. A jury decided that last month. But did he stab Philip and Barbara Russo to death, or was that his accomplice’s dirty work? The same jury that convicted him on Nov. 14 is coming back to decide whether Melici deserves to be executed for the murders of the Deerfield Beach couple.