SEATTLE -- A jury has convicted a man for fatally shooting a student and wounding two others at a small private Seattle university in 2014.
The King County jury found Aaron Ybarra guilty of first-degree murder, three counts of attempted murder and one count of assault for the attack at Seattle Pacific University that killed 19-year-old Paul Lee.
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Jury Convicts Aaron Ybarra In SPU Shooting
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Ybarra had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. His attorney had sought at trial to show that Ybarra suffered from a debilitating mental illness and limited intellectual function and that he believed God was directing him to shoot.
Prosecutors argued that the shooting was premeditated, that Ybarra knew what he did was wrong and that he didn't mention God leading him until months after the shootings
Seattle Pacific University released this statement following the verdict:
Prosecutors and defense lawyers gave closing arguments Monday before the case went to the jury.
Charging papers say Ybarra scouted the campus before he returned on June 5, 2014, with the intent of committing a mass shooting he did not expect to survive.