LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – A Las Vegas jury has handed down a death sentence for an ex-convict accused of killing his ex-girlfriend.

Robert Brown Jr., 46, is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, Nichole Nick, 29, and wounding her 58-year-old mother. Police also reported finding a bullet hole in the bed of Nick’s 3-year-old niece, although the child was unharmed.

Brown has been in custody since Los Angeles police arrested him in April 2014.

In 1998, he was also convicted of trying to kill his then-wife in California and will spend seven years in prison as a result.

Brown is scheduled to be sentenced at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3

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