JACKSONVILLE, Florida — A Florida jury found a software engineer guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in the shooting death of an unarmed teenager during a dispute over loud rap music.
Michael Dunn, 47, a software engineer, testified he was defending himself when he fired 10 rounds at a sport utility vehicle carrying four teens listening to music at a Jacksonville gas station parking lot in November 2012, killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis.
In a February trial, a jury deadlocked on the murder charge but convicted Dunn on three counts of attempted murder for firing at the three surviving teens in the vehicle.
Under Florida’s mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines for crimes committed with a gun, Dunn could face at least 60 years in jail for his February convictions. Sentencing for those convictions was postponed until after his retrial.