Crime & Safety

Former SBU Soccer Player Found Guilty in Maryland Murder

Brittany Norwood will be sentenced on Jan. 27.

A former Stony Brook University women's soccer player has been found guilty of killing a coworker in March at the Bethesda, Md., retail store where they worked.

Brittany Norwood, 28, was convicted of first degree murder on Wednesday by a jury that deliberated for about an hour. Jurors were asked to consider verdicts of both first- and second-degree murder.

Norwood, who played for the Seawolves from 2001 to 2003, that she and Jayna Murray, 30, were attacked and sexually assaulted by masked men at the Lululemon store in downtown Bethesda, Md., on the evening of March 11.

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while she sustained more than 300 injuries.

Norwood will be sentenced on Jan. 27.

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