LEONARD GRAY / L’Observateur / August 21, 1999

CONVENT – Glynn Juniors of Reserve was sentenced to death Tuesday after being convicted of the first-degree murder of a Gonzales man. The murderoccurred during a 1997 robbery.

Prosecutor Tom Kliebert for the 23rd Judicial District said jury selection, held last week, took only three days, and trial began Monday. The juryreturned its verdict of guilty as charged after two hours of deliberation Tuesday evening.

On Wednesday, the jury returned its sentence of death by lethal injection after 45 minutes of deliberation.

Juniors, 31, was charged with the Nov. 17, 1997 shooting death of AlbertRobinson, 43, as Robinson worked at Fleet Boats Inc. in Convent. Anotherdefendant, Ronald Williams, 31, of LaPlace, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on April 19 in exchange for his testimony against Juniors and a life sentence.

Both also await trial in St. John the Baptist Parish for the Dec. 22, 1997murder of Jo Ann Edler at BRS Seafood in LaPlace and the Jan. 10, 1998robbery and attempted murder of the Vietnamese owner of the In-n-Out convenience store in Reserve.

What convicted Juniors, Kliebert said, was the .380-calibersemiautomatic weapon allegedly used by Juniors in all three incidents, matched by ballistics. In addition, a cigarette pack belonging to theconvenience store owner had Juniors fingerprints on it, he added.

In the Robinson case, the pair entered Fleet Boats Inc. just before closingtime and Juniors asked for a job application, then shot and killed Robinson.

He then turned the gun on the company’s owner, John Jackson, and shot him in the neck. Jackson survived the incident.In the Edler case, the pair allegedly entered the store at midday on Dec. 22and left Edler dead, shot in the head with her throat slashed and with her body hidden in a walk-in cooler.

In the In-n-Out case, the pair’s robbery attempt was captured on videotape. Juniors is said to have fired once, injuring the store owner inthe face as he tripped a silent alarm. Juniors fired again, but the gunmisfired and the pair fled the store.

A St. John Parish deputy, close to the scene, spotted the fleeing pair, gavechase and apprehended them without incident.

Kliebert said Juniors’ reaction to the verdict was “cold,” and he commented of the plea agreement with Williams, “Sometimes, you have to deal with the scum of the earth.”

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