GATESVILLE (May 16, 2011)--Travis Vershun Brazil, 22, will spend the rest of his life in state prison after a Coryell County jury found him guilty late Monday of capital murder.

The state did not pursue the death penalty so Brazil was automatically sentenced to life without parole.

The jury deliberated about four hours and returned the verdict at about 7 p.m.

Brazil was found guilty of the January 2010 death of Frank Schreiber and the shooting of Schreiber's wife Leila, who both also were 22 at the time of the shooting.

The defense did not put any witnesses on the stand.

Brazil and his co-defendant, Pfc. Brandon Christopher Walker, 20, had planned to break into Schreiber's home and steal a television set and guns.

Brazil then told officers it was Walker and not him who pulled the trigger that night that resulted in Schreiber's death and injury to Schreiber's wife.

Walker testified last week, however, that it was Brazil who did the shooting.

Trial testimony indicated no fingerprints were found on the shotgun that was used and that both men had gunshot residue on their clothing.

Walker was to stand trial earlier in the year, but he accepted a plea deal rather than face the death penalty that would allow him life in prison with the possibility of parole in exchange for his testimony against Brazil.

Brazil admitted on the videotape he had gone to the Schreiber home on the night of the shootings but he fled the house when Walker started firing a shotgun.

Last Tuesday the jury heard an audiotape of Leila Schreiber's frantic call for help and on that tape the wounded woman named Walker as the shooter.

Also, testimony from a Copperas Cove police officer who investigated the shooting included a recording of Leila Schreiber identifying Walker in her own voice as the man who shot her and killed her husband.

Schreiber died at the scene and his wife was taken to Darnall Army Medical Center where she eventually recovered from her wounds.