Prosecutor: Man who killed trespasser sought confrontation
Source: Associated Press
Prosecutor: Man who killed trespasser sought confrontation
By SCOTT SONNER, Associated Press | May 29, 2015 | Updated: May 29, 2015 3:48pm
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada prosecutor on Friday urged jurors to convict a 74-year-old man of first-degree murder, saying he was seeking out a deadly confrontation when he shot two unarmed trespassers in a vacant duplex he owns.
Retired Sparks schoolteacher Wayne Burgarello maintains he was acting in self-defense when he killed Cody Devine and seriously wounded Janai Wilson last year.
A jury in Reno is expected to begin deliberations Friday afternoon after defense lawyer Theresa Ristenpart gives her closing statement.
Assistant district attorney Bruce Hahn told jurors the sleeping trespassers had no business being at Burgarello's duplex. But he said they did nothing to threaten Burgarello and didn't deserve to be "shot like fish in a barrel."
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Jury-deliberations-should-start-Friday-in-Reno-6293837.php
