Man convicted of ending argument outside Roxbury bar by shooting four people

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Charkeem Hyatt of firing into a closing-time crowd outside Packy Connors on Blue Hill Avenue in 2009.

Prosecutors said Hyatt had gotten into an argument with a guy outside the bar on July 17 when he pulled a gun and started shooting - hitting not just the other man, but three women who had nothing at all to do with the dispute, one hit in the back as she sat in her car waiting for friends. Police shut down Blue Hill Avenue as they swarmed the area to hunt Hyatt and the bar lost its license for several days.

The jury convicted Hyatt, now 22, of three counts of aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon as well as on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm as a second offense, unlawful possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony and unlawful possession of ammunition.

He is scheduled to be sentenced next week.