CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Sentencing for 22-year-old James Boughton Jr. will start Monday. He faces up to life in prison for the slaying of a Mormon missionary and wounding another.
Boughton was convicted of first-degree murder in the January 2006 slaying of Morgan W. Young of Bountiful, Utah. Boughton also was convicted in the shooting of Joshua Heidbrink of Greeley, Colo.Heidbrink recovered and testified at Boughton's trial.
The missionaries were shot while knocking on doors in the southeast Virginia city.
The jury's verdict Friday came on the third day of deliberations in the trial.
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