Khalil Jamandre Sanders never denied that he shot a woman in the back during a road-rage clash in Colorado Springs.
But his claim that his victim should share in the blame for cutting him off was quickly rejected by an El Paso County jury, which convicted him of all counts Thursday.
After a three-day trial, the nine-man, three-woman panel deliberated for just three hours before finding Sanders guilty.
Sanders, 24, faces up to 32 years in prison on the first-degree assault charge in the Feb. 2 attack that left a bullet lodged in victim Jamie Vasquez’s spleen. He is due to be sentenced Jan. 30.
Attorneys for the 24-year-old ex-Fort Carson soldier argued that Sanders acted in the heat of passion after being repeatedly cut off by Vasquez, angling for a verdict that could have lowered his sentence to six years.
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