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Woman convicted of killing pro cyclist Anna 'Mo' Wilson gets 90 years in prison. What happened?

Source: Gannett

The murder trial of a Texas woman charged in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna “Mo” Wilson has ended with a guilty verdict and a 90-year prison sentence.

It took jurors only two hours to convict Kaitlin Armstrong on Thursday and just over three hours to decide her sentence on Friday.

Investigators said Armstrong fled the U.S. shortly after Wilson was killed and underwent plastic surgery in an attempt to evade authorities.

“Find her guilty of shooting in the heart and the head and taking away this prodigy at the age of 25,” Travis

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