"I love (my brother) with all my heart, and now (Aidan Fraley) doesn't have a dad," Andre Harris told reporters afterward. "But we put the criminal behind bars."

The defense had called an out-of-state psychiatrist to testify that Bates mistakenly shooting Harris was reasonable given the stress of the situation, and before closing arguments jurors were instructed on the statutory requirements for "excusable homicide."

But after hearing from 21 witnesses in the 1½ week-long trial, jurors apparently agreed with prosecutors who asserted that Bates' failure to exercise reasonable caution when he shot Harris constitutes criminal negligence.