DETROIT - Theodore Wafer has been found guilty of second-degree murder, manslaughter and felony firearm in the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Renisha McBride.
A jury of seven men and five women convicted the 55-year-old Dearborn Heights, Mich., man.
The defense has argued that Wafer's actions were in self-defense, saying he was scared after hearing banging on his side and front doors. The prosecution has said Wafer shot McBride through a locked screen door. They said Wafer came to the door with a loaded shotgun, released the safety, raised it at her, pulled the trigger and 'blew her face off.'
Renisha McBride(Photo: Detroit Free Press)
During closing arguments Wednesday, Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Patrick Muscat said Wafer 'wanted a confrontation.'
Cheryl Carpenter, Wafer's attorney, said the pounding on Wafer's home was 'getting louder and louder and louder and louder until the floors started vibrating, the walls were shaking, the window was about to break, the screen door was already broken.'
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