Houston teen convicted of murder in robbery that netted one dollar

Miguel Ramos, a 32-year-old homeless day laborer who was killed in a robbery last year, died fighting. He was allegedly killed for a single dollar bill that had been torn in half.

Prosecutor Beth Exley on Tuesday pointed across the courtroom at 19-year-old Carlos Daniel Fernandez and urged jurors to find him guilty of capital murder.

“He killed him because he put up a fight,” Exley told the jury in closing arguments. “That’s it.”

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