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Sep 7, 2007 11:08 pm US/Pacific

Transient Guilty Of Actor's Murder Near The Grove

LOS ANGELES (CBS) ― A transient who fatally stabbing an aspiring actor near The Grove shopping center was convicted Friday of second-degree murder.

Kim McMurray will be sentenced Sept. 21.

Two previous trials of McMurray ended in mistrials when the juries deadlocked.

But the third trial ended today, with jurors convicting McMurray of killing 32-year-old Eric Gelman of Florida about 10 p.m. April 17, 2005, shortly after Gelman got off work at the shopping center's Marmalade Cafe.

McMurray was arrested in December 2005, after police papered the apartment-dense neighborhood with fliers about the attack, generating about 200 tips.

A 16-inch knife was recovered at the scene, detectives said.

McMurray has convictions dating back to 1983 for grand theft, obstructing an officer and drug-related charges, according to the District Attorney's Office.

(© 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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