A jury has found a Central Arkansas restaurant owner guilty of capital murder in the 2015 fatal shooting of his pregnant mistress.
Chicken King co-owner Quenton King, 38, automatically received a life sentence.
On Thursday morning, lawyers made their closing statements before the jury began deliberating shortly before 10:30 a.m. It took jurors about two-and-a-half hours to reach a verdict.
Prosecutors said King killed 36-year-old Megan Price in June 2015 after the woman, whom he had been in an on-and-off relationship with for about 14 years, posted on Facebook that she was pregnant with his child.
A second capital murder charge was dismissed by Circuit Judge Herb Wright on Wednesday. The judge ruled that the prosecution had not proven the unborn baby was alive when Price was shot.
The defense had argued that no DNA evidence linked King to the scene of the crime: Price's North Little Rock home.
On Thursday afternoon, defense attorney Ron Davis said he will appeal the verdict.
King co-owns Chicken King restaurants in North Little Rock and Little Rock with his wife of more than 15 years.