In a span of roughly five minutes, trial evidence showed Brennan Wakey went from reclining on a bed to exiting the Hyatt Place hotel, leaving Colton Wright lying on the hotel floor with a gunshot wound to his face.
The central question: Did Wakey fire his gun at 24-year-old Wright with the intent of killing him, or was it self-defense?
After almost seven hours of deliberation, a six-person jury found that Wakey was guilty of manslaughter, a lesser included charge, and tampering with evidence in connection to the fatal shooting inside room 319 at the hotel on University Parkway. Wakey was initially charged with second-degree murder…