Cape News
Man sentenced to 21 years in prison in Cape homicide
A man faces two decades in state prison after being found guilty in a Cape Coral homicide. On Tuesday, Eduardo Troche-Rodriguez, 32, was adjudicated guilty and sentenced to 21 years in prison with a 20-year minimum/mandatory, followed by five years of probation for second degree murder with a firearm, according to the State Attorney's Office. Troche-Rodriguez was first taken into custody in March of 2023 in Lexington, Kentucky, and charged with second degree murder in connection to the death of 41-year-old Fernando Batista Montero in June of 2022. Troche-Rodriguez and Jose Alberdi Maldonado, shot and killed Montero when the three were at a Cape Coral home and an argument ensued ...
