Convicted of what prosecutors called a racially-motivated murder, Kyle Bormann finds out Tuesday morning how many years he'll spend in prison for shooting an Omaha woman to death.

Prosecutors were going for the death penalty, but the jury decided in September that the 20-year-old Bormann was guilty of second-degree murder, sparing him the possible death sentence.

That conviction does give the judge a tremendous range of penalties, from a minimum of 21 years to the maximum of life plus 50 years behind bars.

On her way home last January 20th, 21-year-old Brittany Williams stopped to pick up dinner for her stepfather and while in the Kentucky Fried Chicken drive-thru at 30th and Craig, she fell in the crosshairs of Bormann's hunting rifle.

Brittany's grandmother says Bormann did more damage than he could have possibly imagined.

“That boy not only took a shining star from us, he wrecked his family, too,” says Evelyn Bryant Jones. “We have empathy for them because of their loss, but they can go to Lincoln and see their son."

During the trial, both prosecutors and the defense placed a lot of weight in the four-hour long police interview of Bormann. Prosecutors said it showed a homicide detective doing his job, the defense claimed Bormann was led through a confession.

Brittany's biological father says he saw something else and believes the jury did as well.

"If you watch that tape long enough you almost had sympathy for him when he was going through that and maybe that's what the jury saw," says The Rev. Tony Jones.

The jury convicted Bormann of unpremeditated, but intentional murder. Now it comes down to what Judge Gerald Moran sees as a just sentence.

Though Bormann was not convicted of a hate crime, corrections officials will take precautions for his safety. The first step will be a diagnostic evaluation that should take 60 days.

Corrections officials will take everything into consideration, including Bormann's age, previous record and media coverage of the crime.