SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento District Attorney’s Office has announced a man has been convicted of second-degree murder in connection with a deadly 2023 stabbing in Rancho Cordova.
A jury convicted Roderick Earl Sowells of second-degree murder and “found true the allegation that Sowells used a deadly weapon in the commission of the murder,” the Sacramento District Attorney’s Office said in a press release.
The press release goes on to say that on Aug. 12, 2023, the victim and his friend were at a Folsom Boulevard light rail station, sitting on a bench, when Sowells got off the train and approached the two…