{"id":183384,"date":"2026-02-18T20:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183384\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:09:19","slug":"men-sent-away-for-life-for-murdering-woman-who-tried-to-break-up-talmadge-robbery-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183384\/","title":{"rendered":"Men sent away for life for murdering woman who tried to break up Talmadge robbery \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man convicted of fatally shooting a woman during a robbery at a Talmadge-area apartment complex was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Early Madden, 37, was found guilty by a San Diego jury of first- degree murder and a special circumstance allegation of committing the killing during a robbery for the July 15, 2024, slaying of 38-year-old Senait Legesse.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Madden entered a 59-year-old man&#8217;s Euclid Avenue apartment that night, brandished a gun, and took the man&#8217;s wallet.<\/p>\n<p>Madden then shot Legesse when she tried to stop the robbery, then ran from the apartment, according to police. Legesse died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Madden was arrested four days later in the 4900 block of University Avenue, less than a mile from where the deadly shooting occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man convicted of fatally shooting a woman during a robbery at a Talmadge-area apartment complex was sentenced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75,69124],"class_list":["post-183384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-talmadge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}