Man convicted of murderSFlbin killing at Burger King

Associated Press

ZANESVILLE, Ohio

A jury has convicted a man of aggravated murder in an eastern Ohio fatal shooting in a fast-food restaurant.

The Zanesville Times Recorder reports that Timothy Daniel acted as his own attorney in his Muskingum County trial. After his conviction Friday, he faces a potential sentence of life in prison for the Oct. 31 slaying of Charles Hooper in a South Zanesville Burger King restaurant. Witnesses testified that Hooper had tried to intervene when Daniel angrily confronted his girlfriend of the time.

Daniel had hoped to present a tale of Hooper as the woman’s “sugar daddy” and claim he was acting in self-defense. But the woman testified she had never seen Hooper before Daniel hit him with a pistol and then fired.