BOULDER — Kevin McGregor has been found guilty of first-degree murder, felony murder, attempted aggravated robbery and felony menacing in the shooting death of Todd Walker on University Hill last year.
He was immediately sentenced to life wiithout parole.
The verdict, delivered just after 5 p.m. today by a jury of nine men and three women, validates the prosecution’s contention that McGregor went out early in the morning of March 18 intending to rob and prepared to use violence.
Defense attorneys for McGregor, 23, of Longmont, had said McGregor whistled at Walker’s friend, Elizabeth Roach, then got in a confrontation with Walker. After McGregor fired a shot in the air, the men got in a struggle over the gun and it went off, they said.
Jurors had the option of convicting McGregor of lesser homicide charges of either second-degree murder or manslaughter.
In returning the first-degree murder conviction, jurors rejected the defense theory of the crime.
The conviction carries a mandatory sentence of life without parole.
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