Joshua Zuazo, 40, and Carlos Hernandez, 38

Two men who posed as DTE workers were convicted Friday in Oakland County Circuit Court of brutally murdering Hamtramck jeweler Hussein “Sam” Murray nearly a year ago in his Rochester Hills home in the 3700 block of Newcastle.

Joshua Zuazo, 40, and Carlos Hernandez, 38, were tried in the same courtroom with two separate juries. Both juries found them guilty of first-degree felony murder and two counts of unlawful imprisonment.

“The timing is perhaps even providential because it will help with healing. There’s a hole we will never fill,” Abdu Murray, one of Murray’s sons, said, according to the Detroit Free Press.

The men, posing as DTE workers, finagled their way into the Rochester Hills home on Oct. 11, 2024, and killed Murray, 72, before tyi

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