A Denver jury has convicted a man of shooting two teenagers who he said had climbed a fence into his yard to steal marijuana plants.
The jury also determined that Keith Hammock’s marijuana grow was illegal, according to a news release from the Denver District Attorney’s Office.
Hammock, 49, was found guilty of second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault-deadly weapon, processing or manufacturing marijuana, and cultivation of marijuana.
The in the 2800 block of High Street. Keylin Mosley, 15, was killed and a 14-year-old boy was wounded.
Hammock told police that a motion-activated light came on when the teens entered the backyard. He shot the teens with a .22-caliber rifle from a second-story window of his home.
After the fatal shooting, in 2015.
