A Michigan man convicted of shooting a teenager who asked his way

"I was trying to explain to that that I wanted instructions to go to my school," he said. The man eventually went out with a shotgun and shot the fleeing teenager.

Brennan said that he had run away when he had seen the man at the shotgun.

Color shots of the shooting, which WDIV said was a home security video, were presented in court this week. She showed Brennan walking towards the door with a backpack.

The video, without sound, shows him waiting for a moment, then fleeing to the street. On the right side of the frame, a man appears, shirtless and denim. He is carrying a shotgun.

While the boy escapes to the top of the frame, the man lifts the weapon. A few seconds go by and he pulls, pulling back his chest.

He lowers the gun, walks to the porch and looks in the direction the boy ran away before turning back to the house.

Zeigler told the police that the gun had exploded after his fall, inadvertently triggering a finger on the trigger, according to an officer's testimony.

In April, Brennan's mother told WDIV that she thought there was a racial component in the case. Zeigler is white. Brennan is black.

"It was really a crime motivated by hate," she said at the time.

Zeigler's lawyer, Robert Morad, told CNN after Friday's verdict that the conviction for a minor assault charge with intent to cause serious bodily harm "showed that the jury believed that my client was not trying to not to kill Brennan Walker, what things we discussed. "

The sentence is scheduled for Nov. 13, added Morad, adding that it was too early to say if they are considering appealing.