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The man who killed Clymer School Superintendent Keith Reed will spend 25 years to life in prison. Anthony Robert Taglianetti was sentenced this morning in Chautauqua County Court. In November, a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder for shooting and killing Reed outside his home in August of 2012. Taglianetti killed Reed because of a relationship between Reed and Taglianetti’s estranged wife. After the trial jurors said the most compelling piece of evidence was Reed’s blood on a gun that was wrapped in a printed-out email between Reed and Mary Taglianetti. The news leader of the Twin Tiers ... since 1947

A jury has found Anthony “Rob” Taglianetti guilty of killing Clymer Schools Superintendent Keith Reed Jr. in September of last year. It took the jury about three hours find Taglianetti guilty of second-degree murder. Prosecutors argued that Taglianetti killed Reed over a relationship Reed had with Taglianetti’s estranged wife, Mary. Taglianetti will be sentenced February 24. He’s being held in Chautauqua County Jail without bail. The news leader of the Twin Tiers ... since 1947

Jurors in the trial for Anthony Taglianetti today saw the .357 Magnum prosecutors say is the murder weapon. The bloodstained gun was found under the front seat of Taglianetti’s car wrapped in an email between Taglianetti’s wife and Keith Reed Jr. that Taglianetti had printed out. Taglianetti is charged with second-degree murder for shooting Reed outside his Clymer home in September of last year. Prosecutors say he killed Reed because of the relationship he had with Taglianetti’s wife. A crime scene expert from Virginia was on the witness stand for most of the morning describing in detail what was found at Reed’s home and in Taglianetti’s car. The trial will continue this afternoon in Chautauqua County Court. The news leader of the Twin Tiers ... since 1947

Anthony Taglianetti drove from Viriginia to Clymer, New York, last September with the intent to kill Keith Reed Jr. because he found an e-mail exchange between Reed and his wife. That was part of the opening statement from District Attorney David Foley in Taglianetti’s murder trial that started this morning. Foley also said investigators discovered a handgun wrapped in that e-mail that Taglianetti had printed out. It had Taglianetti’s DNA and Reed’s blood on it. Mary Taglianetti and her husband were separated when she had a brief relationship with Reed. They hadn’t had contact with each for two years, until she friended him on Facebook last year. The e-mail exchange happened about a month before the murder. Defense attorney Ned Barone told the jury Taglianetti did not kill Reed and that Mary Taglianetti is a liar and a master manipulator. She is expected to testify at some point. The trial could last up to a month. The news leader of the Twin Tiers ... since 1947

UPDATE: Opening statements in the trial are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. Lawyers in Chautauqua County have been trying for nearly a month to choose a jury in the Anthony Taglianetti murder trial. And, late yesterday, they did it. Seven men and five woman have been sworn in as jurors. Two alternates have been chosen as well, and lawyers will try to pick two more today. The trial had been scheduled to start two weeks ago. Taglianetti is accused of shooting 51-year-old Keith Reed Jr. to death in September of last year because he believed Reed was in a relationship with his estranged wife. Reed was the Clymer School Superintendent, a native of Salamanca and a graduate of St. Bonaventure University. Pictured, Keith Reed Jr. The news leader of the Twin Tiers ... since 1947

After three weeks of jury selection in the Anthony Taglianetti murder trial only six people have been chosen, and Taglianetti’s lawyer says the trial should be moved to another county. Just two weeks ago a state appellate judge rejected a motion to have the trial moved, but now Chautauqua County public defender Ned Barone has filed a motion with the appellate division of the State Supreme Court. A date to hear the motion hasn’t been set yet. Taglianetti is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Clymer School Superintendent Keith Reed Jr. in September of last year. Prosecutors say Taglianetti killed Reed because he believed Reed was in a relationship with his estranged wife. The news leader of the Twin Tiers ... since 1947