Tanner Flores will spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury on Wednesday convicted him of first-degree murder after deliberation, felony murder and kidnapping in the death of ex-girlfriend Ashley Doolittle.
after deliberating Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning following more than a week of emotional testimony by the teenagers’ friends and family members, as well as investigators and experts.
Throughout the trial and in closing arguments, the prosecution argued that Flores was a calculating, jealous ex-boyfriend who planned to kill Doolittle, the Coloradoan reports. Prosecutors argued that he took his father’s gun from the family home and compelled Doolittle to meet up with him at Lon Hagler Reservoir and get into his truck — after which he shot her repeatedly.
The defense countered that Flores was overcome with emotion and devastated by the break-up when he shot Doolittle, but it was an impulsive and hasty action that had no forethought, the Coloradoan reports.
During testimony Monday, Flores admitted shooting Doolittle, .
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