Shooting death was murder, not self-defense, jury decides
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Police tape marks the crime scene after a shooting in June 2014. (Getty Images)
A jury in Georgia reached a verdict Friday, convicting an Atlanta woman of murder after she claimed during the trial that she had shot her ex-boyfriend in self-defense.
Victoria Rickman shot Will Carter at least 10 times in the back on Sept. 13, 2013, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The two-week trial debated whether Rickman was protecting herself, or if she intended to commit murder from the beginning. The jury determined it was the latter.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Rickman claimed Carter raped her. But prosecutors argued that her story was false, and that she killed Carter because he had refused to drop a battery charge against her.
The couple had a volatile history that included both being charged with committing violence against the other, the newspaper reported.
Rickman will be sentenced at a later date.
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