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Jury convicts two men of first-degree murder

Two men were found guilty Monday for a 2012 murder in Delray Beach.

A jury found Kevin Sammiel, 29, and Thomas Byrd, 25, guilty of first-degree murder and robbery with a firearm. Both are facing life in prison.

Sammiel and Byrd shot and robbed Dustin Deckard while he was walking down the street just after midnight in Delray Beach. Deckard, a former high school wrestling champion who had moved to the city to battle his drug addiction, was talking on the phone when he was attacked.

A third man, Sherman Colson, is also accused of participating in the crime.