PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Providence man has been convicted of firing into a party and killing another man who prosecutors say was caught in the crossfire of an ongoing dispute between rival street gangs.
Jurors on Wednesday convicted 23-year-old Justice Andrade of murder and weapons charges in the July 2014 slaying of 20-year-old Ty-Shon Perry.
Prosecutors say Andrade peered from behind a tree and shot at a party in Providence. Perry was shot in the back and his lungs were penetrated.
The Providence Journal reports prosecutors said the shooting stemmed from a dispute between the Chad Brown street gang and associates of the East Side gang.
Andrade’s lawyer maintains her client isn’t a gang member and suggested another man who was killed outside a hookah bar in 2015 was the shooter.
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