Iraq vet convicted of killing girlfriend, staging car accident

Web Staff FOX31 Denver

5:37 p.m. MDT, September 16, 2011

DENVER -- A 25-year-old Iraq War veteran faces a life prison sentence after being found guilty Friday of murdering his girlfriend.

A Denver jury convicted Robert Walters on a count of first degree murder for the 2009 death of 22-year-old Brittney Brashers, a U.S. Air Force Airman.

On Nov. 17, 2009, Denver Police responded to reports of a traffic accident in the 100 block of South Yuma Street which appeared to have caused Brashers’ death.

“Continued investigation by the Denver Police Department revealed that Walters had murdered Brashers, and drove the vehicle into parked cars to make it appear as if her death was a result of the accident,” said Denver District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough.

Walters was also charged with solicitation to commit first-degree murder after prosecutors said he tried from jail to hire someone to kill his ex-wife who had told police he confessed to her. 

He was acquitted of that charge.

Walters faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole when he is sentenced on Oct. 24.