NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two New Orleans men in their early 20s face life in prison after being convicted of killing two men and wounding two others outside a Mardi Gras party in 2018.
District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s office says an Orleans Parish jury found 23-year-old Kendall Barnes and 22-year-old Derrick Groves guilty late Thursday of second-degree murder in the deaths of 26-year-old Jamar Robinson and 21-year-old Byron Jackson.
The charge carries a mandatory life sentence.
A news release Friday said they also were convicted on two counts of attempted second-degree murder but cleared on a third.
Three victims were shot as they sat in a parked Nissan Altima. The other two were on the sidewalk in the Lower 9th Ward.
Police said in 2018 that the attack was linked to gang enmity.
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