A jury Thursday found a Town of Tonawanda man guilty of second-degree murder in the April shooting death of his domestic partner in their residence in the town's Sheridan Parkside neighborhood, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.

Mario Turner, 51, was originally charged with criminally negligent homicide and criminal possession of a weapon in the fatal shooting of 49-year-old Renee Taschetta – the mother of his two children – with a shotgun on April 30 inside their Dumas Place apartment.

Prosecutors said some kind of incident had taken place at the residence on the night of the shooting and, in the aftermath, Turner grabbed a shotgun and shot Taschetta in the base of her neck.