A Colorado man has been convicted of murder after killing his girlfriend and trying to disguise the shooting as a fatal break-in.
Lisa West, 34, texted her pal, “I wish I could leave, but I literally have nowhere to go and no money,” the same day her boyfriend, Kevin Wells, shot her in the head at the Mountain Shadows Apartments on Fontmore Road in Colorado Springs, according to court testimony reported by The Gazette.
Wells, who was 36 at the time of the slaying, was convicted Friday of murder by an El Paso County jury, local CBS affiliate KKTV reports. Online court records show that Wells went on trial last week…