Jury Gets University Hill Shooting Case

BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) - The fate of a man charged with murdering a college football player is now in the hands of a jury in Boulder.

Kevin McGregor is accused of shooting 20-year-old Todd Walker after a botched robbery attempt near the University of Colorado campus. Walker was visiting the campus and was on his way home from a party with a friend when he was killed.

McGregor's lawyer says he never intended to hurt Walker.

The jury began deliberations shortly before noon on Wednesday. They have to consider several sets of homicide charges. What the defense and the prosecution are asking for carry significantly different punishments.

Inside the courtroom close friends and family of Walker endured painful details of how the University of New Hampshire football player died -- a gunshot to the chest. They listened while sitting just a few feet away from who police say is the self-admitted killer, McGregor.

"I'd like to say why? Why did you do it? For what?" family friend Jim Gannon said.

Police say when the shooting happened, Walker was walking his friend, Elizabeth Roach, home near 10th and Pennsylvania. Prosecutors credit Roach with being a key factor into why McGregor got caught.

The jury will decide McGregor's intent and state of mind. They are presented with considering first-degree murder and felony murder, or second-degree murder in the heat of passion and manslaughter.

Prosecutors also showed a photo of McGregor pointing a gun to his head that was taken from his computer, along with violent lyrics of him talking about robbing people with a mask.

The defense asked jurors to consider that the pictures and lyrics do not make McGregor a cold-blooded killer.

Investigators say that McGregor admitted to shooting Walker and then minutes later going to a Del Taco restaurant.

Walker's family friends have been verbal about their thoughts of him.

"It just shows his character; how callous and how much disregard he has for anybody else other than himself," Gannon said.