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Casillas guilty on two counts of murder

A Roosevelt County jury on Monday convicted Anthony Casillas of two counts of first-degree murder in the Sept. 25, 2008, shooting deaths of two people on Clovis’ west side.

Casillas, 23, shot and killed 52-year-old Gary Payne of Melrose and 36-year-o...