GRETNA, La. (AP) - A jury in suburban New Orleans has convicted a man in connection with a 2014 robbery attempt that left a man dead and an 8-year-old girl wounded.
A news release from Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick says 29-year-old Kendell Ellis was found guilty Friday of second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit armed robbery.
The release says 29-year-old Anderson Massey was killed in the Oct. 3, 2014, robbery attempt in Marrero. The child was a bystander, hit in the back while playing outside her cousin’s home.
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Ellis faces a mandatory life sentence on the second-degree murder charge.
Connick says Judge Henry Sullivan of the 24th Judicial District Court is scheduled to sentence Ellis on Feb. 20.
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