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A Florida man was convicted Friday of stalking Olympic gold-medal-winning gymnast Shawn Johnson.Robert M. O'Ryan had been charged with felony stalking and commercial burglary. Authorities said he traveled across the country and scaled a fence at CBS Television City in 2009 when the Olympic gymnast was filming the dance competition "Dancing With the Stars."

Johnson testified Thursday that she was so afraid of O'Ryan that she considered quitting the popular TV show.

"He was a stranger to me. To see somebody had that much kind of obsession, it made me really scared," she said, speaking in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.

Johnson, 18, said when police told her that the man was armed, she was worried enough to consider leaving the TV dance show that she eventually won.

During her testimony, Deputy Dist. Atty. Wendy Segall showed Johnson a series of weapons, including a shotgun, handgun and large knife, which the prosecutor said were recovered from O'Ryan's car near the studio after he was arrested.

 

 

 

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