By Associated Press - Thursday, November 1, 2018

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) - A St. Joseph man has been convicted of fatally stabbing a woman at a St. Joseph bar where she worked.

The St. Joseph News-Press reports Eliseo Hernandez-Sebastian was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder, first-degree assault and two counts of armed criminal action.

Police say Hernandez-Sebastian stabbed James Cleveland, who had asked him to leave the Legend’s Sports Bar and Grill in February. Cleveland was treated and released at a hospital.



Thirty-eight-year-old Terra Welch-Reents, a bartender at the bar, was not aware Cleveland had been stabbed when she also told Hernandez-Sebastian to leave.

Welch-Reents, a bartender, was stabbed in the neck, and died from her injuries.

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Information from: The Kansas City Star, http://www.kcstar.com

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