4:15pm | Both suspects in a 2008 shooting that killed two teenagers and injured one more have been convicted after jurors found Jonzel Latrel Stringer guilty of two counts of second-degree murder and 46 counts of attempted murder today. Stringer’s co-defendant, Izac McCloud, was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and 46 counts of assault with a firearm by a separate jury on September 16.
Jurors deliberated Stringer’s fate for seven days before finding an allegation true that a principal was armed during the commission of the crimes. They found not true an allegation that the attempted murders were willful, deliberate and premeditated.
A birthday party became extremely crowded in January 2008 at the Lakewood Masonic Lodge when Stringer got into a fight and told McCloud to shoot. With more than 400 people in attendance, McCloud fired a semiautomatic handgun at partygoers ten times, killing 15-year old Breon Taylor and 17-year old Dennis Moses. One other teenager was shot in the leg.
Stringer, 22, will be sentenced on November 22 and faces a maximum sentence of 198 years to life in prison. McCloud will be sentenced on October 7 and faces a maximum of more than 202 years to life in prison.