Published on Aug 8, 2014
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A jury in Detroit found Theodore Wafer guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of Renisha McBride Thursday, according to the Associated Press.
Wafer, 55, was on trial in Detroit's Wayne County Circuit Court after shooting 19-year-old McBride on his porch in November.
McBride appeared at Wafer's house in Dearborn Heights, adjacent to Detroit, around 4:30 a.m.
on Nov.
2.
She crashed her car nearby earlier that night, and no one knows her whereabout in the several hours between the accident and her death.
She was severely intoxicated.
She knocked on Wafer's door, potentially looking for help; he came to the door with a loaded shotgun and shot her in the face