Vincent Brown guilty of kidnapping, murdering Jennifer Johnson

TAMPA - A Tampa jury found Vicent Brown guilty Wednesday morning in the kidnapping and murder of a Tampa mother. It took the jury a little over four hours to reach a verdict.

The body of Jennifer Johnson, 31, was found in an abondoned home November 19, 2008.  She had disappeared four days earlier.

Prosecutors argued successfully that Brown, 40, kidnapped and murdered her.  Brown is the father of Johnson's 2-year-old daughter.

After she was abducted, Johnson managed to make a 911 call from the trunk of her car.  The recording was played for the jury.

“I don’t see anything because I’m inside my trunk,” a frightened Johnson told the operator.  “They took my car and I’m inside of a trunk.”

“Where did they pick you up at?”

“I don’t know where I’m at.”

“Where did you start out at?...Did you start out somewhere in Plant City?”

The call ends.

According to an autopsy report, Johnson was suffocated by two plastic bags tied around her head.

Prosecutors, who are seeking the death penalty, also played a voice mail recording in which Brown is heard saying, "I did what I had to do and it's done"

Johnson was seen arguing with Brown at the Apollo Club on North 40th Street in Tampa before she went missing.

Brown turned himself in to police after learning he had been named as a person of interest in the case.

The penalty phase of the trial will take place Saturday morning at 8:30.