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Former manager pleads guilty to murdering Burger King asst. manager

Without a trial, prosecutors got the verdict they'd hoped for all along: guilty of first-degree murder Jose Reyes Mejia-Varela, 22, pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to killing Jacinta 'Patty' Ayala, 32, who was shot as she was opening the Burger King on East Patrick Street on the morning of March 18, 2011 Ayala, a mother of three, was an assistant manager at the fast-food restaurant

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