MARTINEZ — Jurors took roughly 90 minutes to convict a man of first degree murder for killing a Pittsburg store clerk in 2023, during an argument over a dirty sneaker.
Gregory Rossignon, 39, was convicted of murder, dissuading a witness, discharge of a firearm, and possession of a firearm of a felon. On March 22, 2023, Rossignon shot and killed 44-year-old Abdul Raouf outside the E-Z Stop where Raouf worked, jurors found.
Rossignon testified at trial that he fired the gun accidentally and felt terrible about it. Other witnesses testified that Rossignon was enraged, after an argument with his girlfriend, and that he’d fired shots outside her home, intimidated an acquaintance for a ride to the store, and told his girlfriend to clean off his shoe, prompting Raouf to kick the woman out of the store.
When the woman told Rossignon she’d been ejected from the store for cleaning the shoe, Rossignon confronted Raouf outside, and shot him. Rossignon’s lawyer initially told jurors they wouldn’t be able to tell whether it was his client on surveillance footage of the shooting, but hedged this defense by saying that either way, Rossignon lacked the mental state necessary for murder.
Raouf was shot twice in the chest. The prosecutor called it an “execution.” After the murder Rossignon fled to Modesto and was arrested days later, after a SWAT standoff.
Rossignon has two other arrests in homicide cases. He was arrested on suspicion of murder as a teen in the early 2000s, but acquitted at trial. In 2009, he was arrested in connection with the shooting death of 18-year-old Demariay Weathers in Antioch, and ultimately pleaded no contest to manslaughter for a prison term, court records show.
For this first degree murder conviction, Rossignon faces a minimum sentence of 25 years to life, but will likely receive decades more than that.
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