The man who shot his former flatmate with a high-powered air rifle has been found guilty of murder.
Glenn Michael McDonald has been on trial at the High Court at Auckland for the murder of Keith Kahi on July 4 last year.
It took the jury just two hours to return its verdict today.
The Crown said McDonald shot his former flatmate seven times after an argument over a woman.
McDonald told the court that he feared for his life and shot Mr Kahi in self-defence after being flung to the floor.
Crown prosecutor John Dixon had told the court that McDonald was keen on a woman and believed Mr Kahi was seeing her.
"He tells you, you're crazy if you think the two of them are together and that he's sick of your paranoia ... You get angry and you shoot him.''
On the day of the shooting, police found McDonald's three bedroom home in east Auckland had been rigged with security cameras and sensor beams guarding the driveway.
Inside, McDonald had stashed money, drugs and computer equipment in three different safes. He had also bought a high-powered air rifle to scare away robbers.
The self-proclaimed "mid-level dealer'' had been in the methamphetamine scene for 10 years but said he was planning to get out.
In the Crown's opening, prosecutor Nathan Speir said Mr Kahi had decided to move out from the Botany Downs house.
But before he could finish loading his gear into his car, Mr Kahi was shot seven times by a high-powered air rifle.
He was found at the bottom of the driveway and died later at Middlemore Hospital.
Mr Speir said that night McDonald went around to his friend Tina Preece's home.
He said Mrs Preece's husband had shot a man with the same type of high-powered air rifle in 2008 and had stood trial only three weeks before Mr Kahi was shot dead.
The name of Mrs Preece's husband has been suppressed.
Mr Speir said Mrs Preece talked with McDonald until 4.30am
He said McDonald told Mrs Preece that he had shot Mr Kahi in the living room.
McDonald will be sentenced in December
- Edward Gay of APNZ
