22 year-old Lloyd Eligio, who was charged with the October 2009 attempted murder of Mark Lord, was convicted today in the court room of Troadio Gonzalez. He is at prison tonight, awaiting sentencing.
The main prosecution witness was the victim, Mark Lord. He took the stand and testified in the trial that Eligio, who he saw and knew very well, followed him on Swing Bridge on October 25, all the way to Hyde's Lane, where he opened fire on him in front of the DHL building. One of the bullets struck him in the chest but he survived after emergency surgery.
Under cross-examination, Eligio got a chance to challenge his accuser, Mark Lord, and he tried to convince the jury that Lord was mistaken. Throughout, however, Lord maintained his certainty that Eligio was the gunman.
When the prosecution closed its case, Eligio took the stand and gave sworn testimony that he and his main alibi witness were at his grandmother's house at the time of the shooting, so it couldn't have been him who Lord saw pulling in the trigger. That witness, however, took the stand and told the court that at the time of the shooting, he wasn't with Eligio.
The jury of 9 deliberated for just over 3 hours, and when they returned, they delivered a unanimous verdict of guilty. Justice Troadio Gonzalez has scheduled his sentencing hearing for November 4, to give him time to prepare a mitigation plea.
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