A man who entered the US illegally from Haiti and murdered a Fort Myers store clerk will face the death penalty, prosecutors said.

State Attorney Amira Fox announced Thursday that a Lee County grand jury returned an indictment against Rolbert Joachin, 40, in connection with the April 2 killing of Nilufa Easmın , a 51-year-old immigrant from Bangladesh, at a gas station in Fort Myers, Florida.

According to prosecutors, Joachin is accused of attacking the victim outside a gas station, striking her repeatedly in the head with a hammer and killing her.

Surveillance video captured the assault, which showed the victim being repeatedly struck in the head with a hammer after confronting the suspect for smashing her car window.…