Jury recommends death for killer of four at grocery store

LAS VEGAS, JULY 22: A former US marine who prosecutors said was living out his fantasies when he gunned down four supermarket employees, s...

LAS VEGAS, JULY 22: A former US marine who prosecutors said was living out his fantasies when he gunned down four supermarket employees, should be sentenced to death, a jury said.

The same jury yesterday found Zane Floyd, 24, guilty of four counts of first-degree murder on July 13.

He was also convicted of the attempted murder of a fifth supermarket employee and of raping and kidnapping an escort service dancer just before last year’s shootings at an Albertson’s grocery store.

Formal sentencing was scheduled August 31.

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Defense attorneys tried to portray Floyd as an emotionally and mentally troubled man who turned to drugs and alcohol. A psychiatrist who treated Floyd when he was about 13, testified that Floyd had a variety of problems, including attention deficit disorder.

Clark county District Attorney Stewart Bell described Floyd as a "hollow soul" whose fantasies included rape and murder.

Jurors deliberated less than two days in deciding Floyd’s fate. He bowed his head as the verdict was read.

"There’s not a whole lot I can say to the families of the four people I killed," Floyd said on the witness stand on Tuesday. "I can’t take back what I did, but I would if I could."