!!UPDATE!! Homeowner in Renisha McBride's killing charged with second-degree murder !!UPDATE!!

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The man who shot and killed Renisha McBride, a 19-year-old woman standing at his front door, has been convicted of murder.
Theodore Wafer was found guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter on Thursday, according to the Associated Press. He could face up to life in prison when he is sentenced on Aug. 21. [UPDATE: The sentencing date has been moved to Aug. 20 according to a spokeswoman for prosecutor Kym Worthy.]
Wafer shot McBride through the screen door of his home outside of Detroit last November. The case was racially charged: McBride was a black teenager killed by a white man less than four months after George Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter after shooting and killing Trayvon Martin.
“Her life mattered and we showed that,” Monica McBride, her mother, told the Detroit Free Press on Thursday.
In a news conference after the verdict was announced, McBride’s parents said they supported it:
McBride knocked on Wafer’s door after crashing her car not far from his house in the early hours of Nov. 2. (Tests show she was intoxicated at the time.)
Wafer, testifying earlier this week in the trial, said he grabbed his 12-gauge shotgun because he feared for his life. He said he “just reacted,” according to the New York Times. (Earlier, he had told police that the shooting was accidental.)
Wafer fired through the screen door and hit McBride in the face. He was charged with second-degree murder nearly two weeks later. The jury delivered the guilty verdict on Thursday, the second day of deliberations, following a trial that began last month.

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A homeowner has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of an unarmed woman on a suburban Detroit porch earlier this month.
Renisha McBride, 19, was killed on Nov. 2 in Dearborn Heights, Mich., when she went to a 54-year-old Theodore Paul Wafer's porch seeking help after a car crash, according to authorities.
On Friday, hours after the Wayne County prosecutor announced three charges against Wafer — the most serious of which was murder in the second degree — Wafer turned himself in and was arraigned.
Wearing a T-shirt and jeans, Wafer said little at his court appearance. Bond was set at $250,000.
 "These are the appropriate charges and he did not act in lawful self-defense," Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy said at a press conference earlier.