A Florida man who tried to explain his girlfriend”s death from a spear as an accident was found guilty of her murder.

Adam Crespo, 49, was convicted on Monday of second-degree murder in connection with the 2019 death of his girlfriend, 32-year-old Silvia Galva. According to courtroom reporting by Miami-based NBC affiliate WTVJ, the jury deliberated for “just under two hours” before finding Crespo guilty of Galva’s murder after he attempted to claim her death — caused by a wound to her chest from a spear — was an accident.

The defense presented one witness — a retired medical examiner who told the court that Galva’s manner of death “is best left undetermined.” Despite dramatic reenactments of how the fatal confrontation could have occurred, the jury disagreed with the defense’s claim.

According to the arresting paperwork reviewed by Law&Crime, police responded to the home Crespo and Galva shared on the night of July 12, 2019, and found Galva “on the bedroom floor with a chest wound.” Despite life-saving measures, Galva died that night after being impaled by a spear that was originally serving as a decorative bedpost.

In the police report and during a recorded interrogation, which was played in court, Crespo tried to claim that during a fight he was having with Galva on their bed, he pulled her off the bed by her ankles. Crespo told police that in order to keep herself from being pulled off the bed, “She must have grabbed onto the spear.”

While Crespo was “turned away” from Galva, he said he “heard a snap.” When he turned back around to see what had happened, he found the 12-inch blade buried in Galva’s chest. He told police that he then pulled the blade out of her chest, “hoping it was not too bad.” He then yelled to his neighbor to call 911 while he applied pressure to Galva’s wound.

When police arrived, they found the broken spear and the blade. The bedsheets had also been pierced by the blade, which had gone all the way through Galva’s body.

During the trial, Assistant State Attorney for the Broward State Attorney’s Office Jaclyn Broudy said Crespo “was a person who very clearly is guilty of second-degree murder, very clearly had an ill will, a hatred, a spite against [Galva]. He was pissed off and wanted her out.”

Prosecutors brought in another medical examiner who told the court that the angle of the wound, combined with the force needed to cause the blade to go through Galva’s torso, proved it was a homicide. Broudy said, “There is no scenario, no speculative, possible imaginary scenario that exists where this was an accident. This was an intentional act by that man.”

Crespo’s defense attorney Christopher O’Toole said, “There is no physical evidence, there is no evidence Adam gripped that spear and used it. Why is there no physical evidence? Because it was an accident. There’s not going to be physical evidence that there was a murder.”

The jury agreed with the prosecution, returning a guilty verdict on one count of second-degree murder. Crespo is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 31.