(WGTD)---A Kenosha County jury convicted a Trevor man as charged in the shooting deaths of two brothers outside of a Twin Lakes bar in 2017.
26 year-old Nathan Kivi showed no emotion as the verdicts were read Thursday afternoon, more than a day after the jury began deliberating the case.
Kivi is scheduled to be sentenced in June. Kivi, who's already serving time for burglary, will receive a pair of mandatory life sentences.
The victims were Ken and Richard Samuel. A large contingent of their friends and family were in court when the verdicts were announced. Several wept.
During the trial, the defense had argued that Kivi fired the fatal shots in self-defense after an argument between two groups that began inside the Beach Bar the night of Thanksgiving, 2017 spilled outside into the parking lot. As Kivi and a friend were leaving in Kivi's pickup, somebody threw a beer bottle that shattered the rear window. Against the advice of his friend, Kivi grabbed a gun from the truck's middle console then stepped outside and fired at people who were approaching. Minutes earlier, Kivi, before getting into his truck, had fired warning shots into the air.
As a felon convicted of burglary, Kivi wasn't supposed to have had a gun in the first place.
No one could say what the argument that started things was about, according to the Kenosha News, which covered the trial.
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