Aurora man who shot teen dead in a jealous rage is convicted of murder

A antheral who killed a 16-year-old, the caller fellow of his erstwhile girlfriend, was recovered blameworthy of first-degree execution by an Arapahoe County jury.

The assemblage returned the verdict Wednesday aft deliberating for astir 3 hours, according to a territory attorney’s bureau quality release.

Joseph McCaughin, 20, of Aurora, was convicted for the May 6, 2019, decease of Ryan Robertson, the merchandise said.

“It’s tragic to spot yet different young man’s beingness chopped abbreviated by the petty jealousy of a antheral with a gun,” said District Attorney John Kellner, successful the release. “Not lone did this suspect termination different person, but helium enactment small kids successful harm’s mode arsenic helium was shooting. Clearly helium is simply a information to this community.”

McCaughin changeable Robertson near Wagon Trail Park successful Aurora, firing aggregate shots and hitting the unfortunate doubly earlier moving away. The gunfire was toward Independence Elementary School, wherever adults and children were successful the enactment of fire, the merchandise said. No 1 was hit. McCaughin, who was arrested successful Georgia 8 days aft the shooting, had made a decease menace against his erstwhile woman anterior to the shooting.

“McCaughin made his intent and his program crystal clear,” Deputy District Attorney Grant Grosgebauer told the jury. “He went looking for his unfortunate and helium was carrying a gun.”

Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 9. The statutory punishment for first-degree execution is beingness successful situation without parole.