VERNON — A jury found a Louisville, Kentucky man accused of killing a Jennings County resident guilty of murder.
Stephon Moore, 30, received that verdict Monday in the April 15 killing of Donavon Booker after the trial that began Sept. 23.
The jury, which deliberated for nearly three hours, also found Moore guilty on a Level 1 felony of attempted murder.
Moore was found not guilty on another attempted murder charge and a Level 6 felony of theft of a firearm.
The 23-year-old Booker died of a single gunshot wound to the upper torso in the driveway of a home at 3972 Squire Lakes Blvd. in Country Squire Lakes, investigators said.
A witness who was later charged in the case had claimed he had been jumped earlier at the Country Squire Lakes home by four people for supposedly touching a woman named “Trinity,” a court affidavit states. Witnesses also told detectives the shooting — which was captured by a surveillance video — was about leaving a girl alone.
According to a neighbor, the disagreement did not involve the victim, and that Booker was “just a bystander” when he was killed.
For more on this story, see Wednesday’s Republic.
