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Worcester man found guilty of stabbing Connecticut man to death

Prosecutors say 25-year-old Jose Morales Jr., of Worcester, was found guilty on Monday.
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WORCESTER, Mass. — A Massachusetts man has been convicted of second-degree murder in the July 2016 death of a Connecticut man who was found in his car in the parking lot of a YMCA with a stab wound to the chest. 

Prosecutors say 25-year-old Jose Morales Jr., of Worcester, was found guilty on Monday.

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The victim, 37-year-old Lee Daniels, of Thompson, Connecticut, was found unresponsive in his car in the YMCA parking lot in Worcester. He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. 

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Authorities say the men had been in a confrontation before the stabbing after Daniels said something about Morales’ girlfriend.

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