Former MTV reality-show contestant convicted in Miami murder | Miami Herald

Baron Colon, who once appeared on an MTV reality show while vowing to avoid prison, is headed there for life after a jury Tuesday convicted him of killing a West Kendall art dealer.

Jurors deliberated seven hours before convicting Colon, who in 2009 was a finalist on the reality show From G’s to Gents, which was supposed to help street thugs reform their ways.

Prosecutors said that Colon, who appeared on the show knowing he was a suspect in the murder of Marcelo Vera, who was found shot to death inside his West Kendall home in January 2006.