MORRISON – An Illinois man accused of killing eight people from two states in 2008 was found guilty Tuesday in the death of a 93-year-old man.

Jurors deliberated for less than three hours in Whiteside County Court before finding Nicholas Sheley guilty of murder in the June 2008 death of Russell Reed at Reed’s home in northern Illinois, The (Sterling) Daily Gazette reported.

It was Sheley’s second trial. The 33-year-old man from Sterling already has been convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence for the killing of a Galesburg man in 2008. Sheley also still faces trials in the other six killings. He could be sentenced to another life term without possibility for parole at his Jan. 16 sentencing in Reed’s death.