Pfister lost his left eye from his injuries and will likely never see out of his right ever again. He navigated the courthouse with the help of a cane and a family member’s arm.

Assistant State’s Attorney David Stanton wiped his eyes after Judge James Campanella read the verdict.

“I think that justice was done,” Pfister told reporters after leaving court. He said that he will be praying for Fisher’s family.

Pfister said “reliving it has been everyday since,” but added that having to talk about it so much during trial was especially hard.

“I’m just glad this chapter is over,” he said.

One of the final witnesses called Thursday in the state’s case was local farmer Lonnie Ruppert, who told an eerily similar story to the one Pfister had described the day before.

Ruppert owns property near Fisher’s in Swanwick — a disputed piece of land runs between them. He said neither Fisher nor he owned it, but no one was sure to whom it actually belongs.

When working his ground one day in 2014, he noticed someone had mowed some of his clover overcrop near the disputed land.