A Douglas County jury convicted Erika Mims of murder in the deaths of Lamar Nedd and Laron Hodges.

A guilty verdict is the jury's finding. It is not the prison term. KETV and the Omaha World-Herald both reported convictions on two first-degree murder counts, two evidence-tampering counts, and four firearms counts. They do not agree on whether a judge has already set the sentencing date. The World-Herald also reported that Erykha Wilson and Kenneth Smith remain charged as accessories. Those charges are not Monday's verdict.

KETV reported that on Monday afternoon, Oct. 5, 2026, a Douglas County jury found Erika Mims, 44, guilty on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of tampering with physical evidence, and four felony weapons charges, and that sentencing was set for Dec. 17. The Omaha World-Herald reported the same day that the jury convicted her of killing Lamar Nedd, 46, in July 2022, and Laron Hodges, 39, in February 2023, on two counts of first-degree murder and six other charges: two counts of use of a firearm to commit a felony, two counts of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, and two counts of tampering with evidence. Those six counts are the four weapons counts and the two tampering counts KETV described. KETV's earlier coverage spelled the second man's name LaRon Hodges. The World-Herald's Oct. 6 story spells it Laron Hodges. They are describing the same verdict. The World-Herald reported the trial lasted four weeks in Douglas County District Court before Judge Kimberly Miller Pankonin, and that a sentencing date had not yet been scheduled. A date one station reports and another says is unset is not a term. The verdict is the finding. The sentence is still ahead.

The World-Herald reported that Deputy Douglas County Attorney Faith Kjelstrup told the jury in opening arguments last month that Mims shot and killed Nedd with a .22-caliber rifle that belonged to Mims's niece, Erykha Wilson, on a waterbed in an apartment near North 73rd and Maple Streets. The paper reported that Douglas County sheriff's deputies found Nedd's body on Aug. 7, 2022, near 75th Street and Rainwood Road by Cunningham Lake. It reported that Kjelstrup told the jury Mims shot Hodges multiple times on Feb. 2, 2023, inside an apartment bedroom near North 16th and Binney Streets, and that deputies found his body in a city-issued trash can in the trunk of his Chevrolet Tahoe. The World-Herald reported that prosecutors charged Mims in October 2023, and that Kjelstrup told the jury investigators linked her to the killings after interviews with Wilson and cell-phone records that allegedly showed contact with Nedd and proximity to Hodges on the nights they were killed. Those sentences are the prosecution's account of the case it tried. The jury's guilty verdicts are the findings on the counts.

Douglas County Sheriff Aaron Hanson said in a statement the World-Herald quoted, "Today, justice was finally delivered for the victims of Erika Mims and their families," and, "This case is one of the more complex investigations that the Douglas County Sheriff's Office has covered in recent history." The paper reported that Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine praised his office, including Kjelstrup, for prosecuting what he called a long, difficult case. It reported that public defender Tom Riley, who had argued the evidence was circumstantial, could not be reached for comment. The World-Herald reported that Wilson, 29, and Mims's former boyfriend, Kenneth Smith, 45, have been charged with being an accessory to first-degree murder and that their cases are still in Douglas County District Court. KETV reported that authorities believe Mims also shot and injured Ronald Townsend, who survived, at an apartment complex off Maple Street in the month Hodges's body was found, and that she is also charged with first-degree assault in a separate shooting. That assault count is not in the conviction list either outlet published for Monday. A co-defendant's pending charge is not this verdict, and a sentencing date the two outlets do not agree on is not a judgment. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.