In closing arguments Monday, prosecutor Jonathan Baumoel repeatedly mentioned the three victims and a fourth jobseeker who survived an attack, and told jurors there was no reasonable doubt that Beasley plotted the killings.

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Whatever one believes about what happened, Gates clearly wasn't the beneficiary of the benefit of the doubt, a reasonable expectation since he posed no visible threat.

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