Colorado road rage shooter convicted of 1st-degree murder

BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — 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.

A jury deliberated for less than three hours before convicting Jeremy Webster, rejecting his claim that he was insane at the time of the June 14, 2018, attack in suburban Denver. Shortly after the verdict, a judge gave Webster life without parole, plus 192 years on attempted murder and assault counts.

Webster told police that he was not in his body during the attack, and that he witnessed his “arm doing the shooting” as if he were an outside observer.

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.

“His mind betrayed him very early on and it continued all the way through June 14, 2018, and it is going to continue for the rest of his life,” she said, noting that Webster’s problems began at age 4, when he saw a psychologist for the first time. They worsened after he moved to Colorado as an adult and grew isolated, Oliver said.

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