Jurors deliver verdict in Connecticut home invasion case

A jury has returned a verdict of GUILTY on all counts in the trial of a Connecticut man charged with killing a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror inside their suburban home.

Jurors who heard the case against Joshua Komisarjevsky deliberated for about 8 hours Wednesday before returning their verdict on Thursday.

Komisarjevsky may face the death penalty as a result of capital felony charges in the 2007 attack.

Authorities say he and a co-defendant, Steven Hayes, broke into the family’s Cheshire home, beat Dr. William Petit with a bat, tied his family up and forced his wife to withdraw money from a bank. The house was set on fire and the girls died from smoke inhalation.

Komisarjevsky has blamed Hayes for killing the family. Hayes was convicted last year and is on Connecticut’s death row.