Shooter to spend life in prison
By John Joyce
Published in News on October 22, 2015 1:46 PM
A Dudley man will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus an additional 38 to 52 years, after being found guilty of first and second-degree murder in a Wayne County Superior Court trial Wednesday.
The verdict came at 6:03 p.m. after five hours of deliberation.
Jujuan Marquis Cox, 30, was sentenced to life in prison for the first-degree murder of Anthony Jamal Kornegay, 28, and to an additional 23 to 28 years for the second-degree murder of Nakia Felicia Garner, 30.
Cox was found not guilty on a single charge -- attempted murder of one of the men injured in the shooting -- but he was found guilty of assaulting the same man with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, according to records obtained from the office of the Wayne County Clerk of Court.
Cox was also convicted of both the attempted murder and the assault with intent to kill of the second man injured in the shooting.
The assaults and all other charges against Cox -- 26 counts of firing into an occupied dwelling -- were consolidated into a third sentence of 15 to 24 years to be served at the expiration of the two previous sentences.
The murders took place in 2013 when Cox and another man, Kevin Raiford, 32, allegedly shot up a mobile home in a Dudley trailer park, killing Kornegay and Ms. Garner and wounding the other two men. Raiford is still awaiting trial, but it took more than a week's worth of testimony and several hours of deliberation for a Wayne County jury to convict Cox.
No trial date has been set for Raiford and neither the prosecutor, assistant district attorney Davis Weddle, nor defense attorney Charles Gurley who defended Cox, were available for comment at the time of this report.