Tragedy struck last year's SXSW, when an aspiring rapper named Rashad Owens drove through a police barricade and into a crowd of people, killing four and injuring more than a score of others Charged with capital murder, Owens's fate was argued in court this past week. Yesterday, Owens was finally handed a verdict: guilty.The case rested on whether Owens had the mental capacity for his actions. In the moments leading up incident, Owens had caught police attention by going down the wrong way of a street. It was in evading arrest that he made the fateful choice of driving into a pedestrian zone.According to the Austin American-Statesman, the jury came to side with the prosecution over a three-hour deliberation, including a damning accusation by the prosecution that Owens "knew what he was doing — and he didn't care. He didn't care who was in his way. He was not going to be stopped. He was not going to go to jail."The defense's argument that Owens's unfamiliarity with the city, his fear of the police, and that he "didn't mean to hurt nobody," fell on the ears of an unsympathetic jury."What our community went through that night was an unbelievable tragedy," said the prosecution, "and it was no accident."Owens was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.