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Man convicted in parking lot slaying of former girlfriend

Marcus Wheeler
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man who shot to death his former girlfriend in a parking lot just north of Omaha has been found guilty.

Jurors convicted 20-year-old Marcus Wheeler on Monday of second-degree murder. Prosecutors say he killed 21-year-old Kay Nelson on April 18 last year.

Prosecutors say Wheeler shot Nelson as she sat in the driver’s seat of her vehicle and her 2-year-old son sat in a car seat in the back. Police say he had been fighting in the parking lot with a brother of Nelson’s new boyfriend before grabbing a gun and shooting her.

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