Life without parole for fatally shooting a man in the face in Dorchester

Shaquille Brown, 24, was scheduled to be formally sentenced to life without possibility of parole today after a Suffolk Superior Court jury found him guilty of first-degree murder for the June 28, 2017 murder of Christopher Austin on Ashmont Street.

The judge in the case against Brown entered a "directed verdict" of not guilty for the second man originally charged in Austin's murder, Keith Sessions.

Austin died just three months after Brown was released from a maximum-security state prison following his completion of a sentence for violating probation in an assault case. In 2011, he had been charged with beating a worker at a DYS facility in Roslindale so badly that the man lost consciousness and had to be treated for bleeding in his brain.

The Globe covered Brown's difficulties trying to get counseling, a place to stay and a job following his release.