A man murdered a 21-year-old woman because her dog pooed outside his house.
Michael Close, from Denver, US, became enraged when Isabella Thallas and her boyfriend Darian Simon attempted to get their dog Rocko to relieve himself outside his house.
Close is thought to have begun shouting out the window, when he heard the couple telling the dog to "go potty", saying: "Are you going to train that f***ing dog or just yell at it!?"
Afterwards he grabbed an AK-47 he had got from a police officer friend who is a sergeant in Denver police and fired 24 shots at the couple.
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Denver District Attorney's Office)Ms Thallas was hit in the back and died at the scene
She had just celebrated her 21st birthday two days before, but her boyfriend suffered gunshot wounds to the leg and buttocks but survived.
Close was later apprehended during a
trafficstop later that day.
His defence team argued for a not guilty verdict, claiming he had suffered a severe mental breakdown due to an abusive childhood, consecutive job losses and a break-up but the jury disagreed.
As his fate was read out in court, close was tearful, as were members of Thallas' family who attended the court hearing, with Thallas' mum saying she felt "numb".
Her mum said: "We've been waiting two and a half years for this day and what happened in there just went by...almost as fast as my daughter was slaughtered."
