William Presley Brown II was found guilty Friday of the murder eight months ago of Chenara Young who was beaten to death before her body was dragged to a trash receptacle at a downtown high-rise apartment building. He was immediately sentenced to life in prison.

&#8220With all the evidence and the lies, it was quite obvious he did it,” said Robert Young, 48, of Greenville, S.C., the victim’s brother. &#8220He showed no remorse. There’s no way he should have gotten away with that.”

Robert Young said Brown was a &#8220cold person only thinking of himself.”

As the verdict was read in Warren County Circuit Court, Brown looked to the floor but showed no emotion.

Deputies handcuffed Brown after Judge Isadore Patrick sentenced him, and he glared at members of the victim’s family before he was led out of the courtroom.

Jurors began deliberations Thursday afternoon and resumed Friday morning. It took them three hours to reach a verdict.

Lt. Billy Brown of the Vicksburg Police Department, who was accused by defense attorneys of ignoring evidence in the case, smiled as he left the courtroom with other detectives.

&#8220It’s satisfaction for the victim’s family,” he said. &#8220I’m happy for them.”

He and other investigators testified during the four-day trial that William Brown, then 32, beat to death Young, 43, 1303 Wood St., with a baseball bat in the early-morning hours of Oct. 14 after a night of smoking cocaine and drinking. He then dragged her to his truck and dumped her nude body behind a trash receptacle outside The Vicksburg Apartments, where he lived. A tenant discovered the body the next day.

He was arrested Oct. 16 after police stopped a car in which he was a passenger on U.S. 61 South near Grange Hall Road.

William Brown admitted removing Young’s body and trying to clean up the crime scenes because he was scared. In a pair of recorded statements to Vicksburg detectives, William Brown said an unknown man with a disfigured eye, whom he met while he was with Young at a convenience store at Clay and Cherry streets Oct. 13, beat the woman with a baseball bat and ran away.

One of his attorneys, Bill Kirksey, said during closing arguments Thursday his client discarded the murder weapon and other evidence and tried to clean up his apartment, where police said the incident started, because he was afraid he – instead of the mystery man – would be blamed for the killing.

Kirksey said William Brown made a mistake by not calling 911 but argued he could not be judged by his actions that morning because of &#8220the circumstance.”

Lakisha Young, 29, of College Park, Ga., said she never believed anybody other than William Brown killed her sister.

&#8220He’s guilty,” she said. &#8220There’s no third person.”

Kirksey’s and Nathan Elmore’s focus was on the Vicksburg Police Department, which they said bungled the investigation by improperly processing the crime scenes.

Robert Young dismissed that claim.

&#8220I think the detectives, the district attorney, the judge, and the jury did a good job,” he said.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Steven Hayne testified the most severe injury to Young &#8220was a large gaping wound … to her forehead.” Although she had other wounds to other parts of her body, including those he called &#8220defensive posturing,” he said the injuries to her head were what killed her.

Brown had lived at The Vicksburg for two months. He had worked at County Market, 2101 Clay St., for two weeks.

The murder conviction was the second in Warren County this year. In February, David Wayne Welch was found guilty in the shooting death of Cetric Ladell Griffin in April 2006.