PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A jury reached a decision Wednesday on whether a Phoenix chef convicted of murdering his wife and two children on Christmas in 2017 will be sentenced to death or spend the rest of his life behind bars.
A verdict was reached in the penalty phase of the trial of Anthony Milan Ross, and it will be read Thursday at 11 a.m.
A jury found him guilty last November of three counts of first-degree murder with several aggravating factors for killing his estranged wife, Iris, and two children, 11-year-old Nigel and 10-month-old Anora, on Dec. 25, 2017, at his apartment near 16th Street and Highland Avenue, south of Camelback Road.
During the trial, prosecutors claimed Ross’ motive was his obsession with being a celebrity whose success was a facade, and whose world came crashing down when his wife filed for divorce six months before the murders…