ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — An 18-year-old high school dropout has been convicted of killing four people in upstate New York during two robberies close to Christmas last year.
Jaquan Clark was found guilty of second-degree murder Thursday in the shooting, stabbing and bludgeoning deaths of three people at a jewelry merchant's home and the shooting death of a man outside another house three days earlier.
Jurors decided Clark, either acting alone or with others, killed 62-year-old Donald MacMaster, 33-year-old Jeffrey Szymkowski and 17-year-old Arielle Griffin the day after Christmas last year at a gold jewelry business MacMaster operated from his home in Rochester.
They also agreed Clark shot to death 37-year-old Alfredo Ocasio in the driveway of a house.
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