TAMPA — A Hillsborough jury on Wednesday found Nahshon Shannon guilty of killing his 13-year-old daughter, Janessa, in 2017. The jury concluded Nahshon Shannon is guilty of third-degree felony murder and child abuse charges after about 14 hours of deliberations over two days in a trial that began on Sept. 18. The decision caps off an investigation that began six years ago, after Nahshon .
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TAMPA — Just shy of six years ago, authorities charged Nahshon Shannon in the death of his 13-year-old daughter, Janessa, whose body was found in a Hillsborough County nature preserve. The arrest ended a three-month investigation that began after Nahshon Shannon reported the girl missing a day after she had vanished from his Cocoa Beach Drive home in Riverview. On Tuesday, a week-long trial .
During the first day of Nahshon Shannon’s trial, an assistant state attorney outlined the evidence that prosecutors say shows he murdered Janessa Shannon in 2017 and left her body in a nature preserve.