The Supreme Judicial Court today ordered a new trial for Maurice Jones, who was convicted of repeatedly and fatally shooting Dinorris Alston as he sat in with his girlfriend in her car on Dunreath Street on April 17, 2012. Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Marurice "Mo" Jones, 21, guilty of first-degree murder for the shooting death of Dinorris Alston on April 17, 2012, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
The verdict means an automatic sentence of life without parole. The jury also convicted Jones of other charges for the incident, in which he also shot a woman in the back. This was Jones's second trial for the murder - a jury last June was unable to come to a verdict.
Boston Police report the arrest of Maurice Jones, 20, on charges he shot two people in a car parked at a gas station at the intersection of Blue Hill Avenue and Moreland Street on April 17, 2012, killing one.
Jones was picked up by the BPD fugitive squad for the death of Dinorris Alston, 32, Roxbury, and the non-fatal shooting of the woman sitting in the car with him, police say.
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