Rochester, NY- Nearly three months after he was found guilty in the triple homicide on Genesee Street outside the Boys & Girls Club, Jalen Everett will now be a free man.
Jurors took about three hours to announce that Everett was not guilty on all six counts in connection to the mass shooting in 2015.
Everett's mother, Leslie Gordon, spoke to the media moments after the acquittal was announced.
"People know that this was not my son. My son worked, he was an average kid, but he didn't deserve this type of treatment right here," Gordon said. "And they know that they had picked the wrong person, they did know. And I'm so happy that justice did prevail at the end."
Everett was convicted of murder on November 4, 2016 for his part in the killings of three men and the wounding of four others in the drive-by shooting. In December his conviction was thrown out by Judge Doug Randall because of juror misconduct
Johnny Blackshell Jr. was convicted of murder last summer and was sentenced to life without parole. Another co-defendent Michael Mathis goes on trial in June.