(CNN) — A Florida man was sentenced to life in prison Friday after a jury found him guilty in the 2022 murder of his roommate, an LGBTQ advocate and brother of a former Miami mayor. (Source: Tallahassee Police Department)The body of Jorge Diaz-Johnston was discovered in January 2022 in a Jackson County landfill several days after he was last seen. A grand jury indicted Yinger in April 2022, alleging he strangled Diaz-Johnston between January 3 and 5 of that year. Diaz-Johnston's husband, Don Diaz-Johnston, reported him missing, according to search warrants. "Jorge didn't charge him rent, never had expectations, until he could get a job and support himself, and that's who Jorge was," Don Diaz-Johnston told WPLG in 2022.

Source: CNN December 16, 2023 23:24 UTC