A Colorado man who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy after a road rage confrontation and wounded the boy’s mother, brother and a witness has been found guilty of first-degree murder.
A Colorado man who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy after a road rage confrontation and wounded the boy’s mother, brother and a witness was found guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday and sentenced to life in prison.
His lawyer, Rachel Oliver, said he was disassociated from both his body and emotions during the attack. She said he had been losing his mind for years, and asked the jury to find him not guilty by reason of insanity, which would send him to a mental hospital for treatment instead of prison. Webster, 28, sat in his chair at the defense table drinking from a water bottle when the verdict was read Wednesday and did not appear to show any emotion. Bigelow, seated next to her husband in the front row on the other side of court, cried and wiped away tears as the verdict was read.
After the shootings, Webster went to Home Depot to buy a new saw for a home renovation project he was working on for his cousin’s construction company, prosecutors said. A clerk testified that it was a routine transaction. Webster returned to work on the project and was arrested by police after his car, identified with the help of Bigelow’s video, was spotted in rush hour traffic that evening, according to testimony from the home's owner and police.
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