Karla Porter Guilty in Husband's Murder at Hess Station

A Baltimore County jury has found an Essex woman guilty of first-degree murder in the 2010 shooting death of her husband at a Towson-area Hess gas station that he managed. 

The jury deliberated Tuesday morning before arriving at the verdict, CBS Baltimore reports. Ultimately the jury denied claims that Karla Porter hired a hit man to kill her husband William Porter in self-defense, CBS reports. 

Porter faces the possibility of life without parole.

Two of Porter's co-conspirators—gunman Walter Bishop and a relative, Susan Datta, who provided the weapon—were also found guilty and sentenced. Datta is serving a life-sentence after being convicted in 2012 while Bishop is serving two consecutive life sentences for firing the shot that killed William Porter. He was convicted in 2011.

A third conspirator, the Porters' nephew, Seamus Coyle, was sentenced to life in prison on a murder charge, along with a concurrent sentence of 25 years for conspiracy to commit murder and five years without parole for use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence in June 2012 for helping Karla Porter contact Bishop for the murder-for-hire scheme, Patch reported

Karla Porter's trial for her role in the murder-for-hire scheme that led to her husband's death was originally scheduled to begin in April 2011 but was postponed several times.

On March 1, 2010, William Porter was shot twice in the head at a Hess gas station, 1600 E. Joppa Road, where he was the manager.