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ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — The wife of an Army sergeant from Michigan who plotted to kill her husband has been found guilty of murder.
Spc. Kemia Hassel was convicted Thursday by a Berrien County jury in the death of Sgt. Tyrone Hassel III.
The 23-year-old Hassel was fatally shot in an ambush on New Year's Eve while visiting his family in St. Joseph Township.
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Prosecutors contended during trial that Kemia Hassel told police she spent months planning her husband’s death so she could continue a romantic relationship with 24-year-old Jeremy Cuellar. All three were soldiers stationed at Fort Stewart in Georgia.
Judge Angela Pasula set Kemia Hassel's sentencing for Aug. 29.
Cuellar is in custody on a $2.5 million bond, and will be tried in August on charges of first-degree premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
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