Man Gets Life for Restaurant Slayings
GADSDEN, Ala. — A young man was sentenced Friday to life in prison for herding restaurant employees into a walk-in freezer during a robbery and killing three of them.
Cuhuatemoc “Tempo” Peraita was convicted of capital murder in the April 15, 1994, attack. Peraita’s co-defendant, Robert Bryant Melson, 25, is scheduled for trial in April.
Peraita, 17 at the time of the slayings, was among the first juveniles to be tried as an adult under a 1994 state law allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to bypass the juvenile court system when charged with violent crimes.
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