A man was convicted of manslaughter in one killing and then acquitted in another that occurred just hours earlier in a West Jacksonville neighborhood.
After approximately nine hours of deliberations, Rashard Antwan Evans, 23, was convicted for his involvement in the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Monquell Deshaun Wimberly as he rode his bicycle down Kings Road the morning of July 20, 2008.
A witness identified his co-defendant, Billy Jim Sheppard Jr., 25, as the man she saw open fire from the passenger window of a car stolen two hours earlier at a nearby convenience store.
Police later found Evans’ fingerprints on the stolen car. A video from the store showed the co-defendants in the store together just moments before the car was taken. The jury found Evans guilty of grand theft auto.
