By Associated Press - Thursday, June 15, 2017

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A man has pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and a weapons count in the shooting death of a motorist in an Omaha road-rage incident.

The Omaha World-Herald reports (https://bit.ly/2rwrS5m ) that Darwin Johnson pleaded no contest Thursday in the October death of 32-year-old Cristian Pastrana-Marin.

Johnson faces 21 years to life in prison when he is sentenced in August.



Police say Pastrana-Marin and Johnson’s 18-year-old girlfriend got into a dispute in which Pastrana-Marin honked at her after one car cut off the other on U.S. Highway 75 near downtown Omaha.

At a red light, Johnson got out of Green’s vehicle and fired seven times at Pastrana-Marin, hitting him once in the head. Pastrana-Marin died seven days later.

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Information from: Omaha World-Herald, https://www.omaha.com

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