Two found guilty for murder of Burke High student outside school

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Jaden Waiters of first-degree murder and Jonathan Aguasvivas of second-degree murder for the shooting death of Raekwon Brown, 17, outside Burke High School on June 8, 2016, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

A third man, Benzy Bain, was acquitted for murder. But along with Waiters and Aguasvivas, the jury did convict him of multiple counts of armed assault with intent to murder for the shooting, which also injured three people, the DA's office reports.

Aquasvivas is also awaiting trial for the murder of another man four months before Brown was shot to death.

During the shooting, Brown managed to push one of the other victims to safety.

According to the DA's office:

During about two weeks of testimony, Assistant District Attorneys Thomas Flanagan and Ryan Mingo introduced evidence and testimony to prove that the defendants acted in concert on June 8, 2016, when they saw a rival in the crowd near the Burke School at about 1:15 pm. The defendants - in a van whose path was documented by surveillance cameras, cell site location information, and Bain’s court-ordered GPS device - reversed course and stopped to take up a position nearby as Waiters approached the scene on foot and opened fire.

Sentencing is scheduled for 9 a.m., tomorrow. Waiters faces a sentence of life without parole; Aguasvivas faces life for the murder, but with the possibility of parole at some point.