{"id":183432,"date":"2026-02-18T20:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183432\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:47:20","slug":"man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-deadly-robbery-in-talmadge-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183432\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to life in prison for deadly robbery in Talmadge \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man convicted of fatally shooting a woman during a robbery at a Talmadge 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 Superior Court 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\u2019s Euclid Avenue apartment that night, brandished a gun and took the man\u2019s wallet.<\/p>\n<p>Madden then shot Legesse when she tried to stop the robbery, according to police. Legesse died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Madden was arrested four days later, 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 apartment complex was sentenced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,1312,138,181,23,100,74,84,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-183432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-county","16":"tag-san-diego-headlines","17":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183432","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=183432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}