The man accused of killing a Binghamton University nursing student has been found guilty Friday afternoon.

A Nicaraguan judge on Friday found Orlando Tercero guilty of killing Haley Anderson in her Binghamton apartment in March 2018. After the killing, Tercero fled to Nicaragua. 

She handed down the charge of femicide, which is a sex-based crime that's defined as the intentional killing of a woman be cause she's a woman.

Police say Tercero strangled Anderson, who was just two months away from graduating at the time of the killing.

In an exceedingly rare legal proceeding, the trial took place at a court in Managua, Nicaragua, with a Nicaraguan prosecutor and a Nicaraguan judge applying Nicaraguan law. American prosecutors had no authority over the trial, but the Broome County District Attorney's Office in New York wass deeply involved as a facilitator for witness testimony. The witnesses testified, with the help of a translator, via a video link from a room in the district attorney's office in downtown Binghamton.

In a case with plenty of twists, the trial saw another shock Friday morning when a reported 5.3 earthquake in Nicaragua, where Tercero is standing trial for a Binghamton Unviersity student's death, caused an abrupt delay in the day's proceedings.

The video feed in the room where local media gathered to follow the trial cut for about an hour. The feed eventually came back, and Tercero's defense attorney resumed laying out his case.

The judge rendered the verdict shortly after 4 p.m.

Gordon Anderson, Haley's father, described her as a bubble on a sun shiny day.

"I dont know if there's ever a word for justice, because there's no justice for something that's truly, for lack of words, disheartening as this was. It was a great loss," said Anderson.

Tercero faces a minimum of 25 and a maximum of 30 years in prison.