Bormann Convicted of Murder

Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008

A Douglas County jury has convicted a 20-year-old Omaha man of second-degree murder in what prosecutors said was the racially motivated shooting death of a 21-year-old woman.

The verdict delivered Thursday means Kyle Bormann will not face the death penalty, as prosecutors had sought.

Bormann was found guilty of fatally shooting 21-year-old Brittany Williams as she waited in a fast-food restaurant drive-through lane. Williams was a student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Investigators have said Bormann, who is originally from South Dakota and lived for a time in Dell Rapids, was sitting in his car 100 to 200 yards away from the restaurant when he fired.

Prosecutors had argued that Bormann shot Williams because she was black; Bormann is white.

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