Jurors deliberated a little over five hours Wednesday night before announcing guilty verdicts against Elrice L. Williams and Joe C. Pittman Jr. of murder, armed robbery and burglary.
Lake Criminal Court Judge Natalie Bakota is set to sentence Williams, 29, of Park Forest, and Pittman, 29, of Chicago, on Feb. 28.
Deputy Prosecutors Eric Randall and Robert Persin presented eight days of testimony and argument in the case.
Prosecutors convinced jurors that the two were involved in a violent drug deal in which an innocent bystander, 18-year-old Alayna Ortiz, died.
Williams attempted to plead guilty last fall to having fired the shot that killed Ortiz.
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