Overview
- A Lake County jury found Lopez, 26, guilty of first-degree murder and robbery with a firearm in the 2024 killing of Raied “Ray” Shihadeh.
- Judge Brian Welke imposed a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
- Investigators said video captured the assailant shooting the clerk, then jumping the counter to take about $100 and a vape product before fleeing.
- Shihadeh’s widow testified she was on FaceTime with him when the attack occurred and called 911 after he stopped responding.
- Prosecutors had dropped a concealed-weapon charge and declined to seek the death penalty as the defense argued Lopez was not the man in the video; he was arrested weeks later at a Kissimmee motel.