A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Marurice "Mo" Jones, 21, guilty of first-degree murder for the shooting death of Dinorris Alston on April 17, 2012, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
The verdict means an automatic sentence of life without parole. The jury also convicted Jones of other charges for the incident, in which he also shot a woman in the back. This was Jones's second trial for the murder - a jury last June was unable to come to a verdict.
Prosecutors say Alston was sitting in the woman's car with her on Dunreath Street around 4 p.m. that day when Jones walked up to the passenger side and opened fire.
Mortally wounded, Alston spoke his last word to the woman, telling her “go,” as he shifted the car into gear.
The woman drove to a nearby gas station for help. Emergency medical technicians arrived at the scene and found Alston in the vehicle’s passenger seat clinging to life with five gunshot wounds, including fatal wounds to his neck and torso. The woman was struck by a bullet that entered her hip and exited through her back.
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