PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon jury has found an unlicensed dentist guilty of murder in the shooting death of a fellow Russian immigrant who prosecutors said had been a patient.
The Oregonian reports a Multnomah County jury on Tuesday convicted 81-year-old Viktor Gebauer in the February 2010 death of 47-year-old Viktor Merezhnikov (MUH-rezh-NEE-koff) at Gebauer’s home in Gresham.
Prosecutors argued the victim was a patient who had a crown removed several days before the shooting and returned to see Gebauer because the tooth was still bothering him.
Merezhnikov twice called his brother on his cell phone, telling him Gebauer had a gun on him.
