The state’s attorney’s office announced Friday that a jury has found 35-year-old New Havener Treyvon Battle guilty of murdering then-27-year-old New Havener Norman Boone during a shooting on Dickerman Street in 2017. The guilty verdict was the subject of a press release sent out by New Haven state’s attorney John Doyle’s office at 4:12 p.m. Friday. The press release states that, on Wednesday, a jury in New Haven state court found Battle guilty of the crimes of murder, assault in the first-degree, criminal possession of a firearm, and carrying a pistol without a permit. “According to evidence introduced at trial, on May 27, 2017, the defendant, who was 26 at the time, shot two men, Garian Suggs, 26, and Norman Boone, 27, on Dickerman Street in New Haven,” the press release states. “Suggs suffered a gunshot wound to the neck from which he recovered. Boone was transported to Yale New Haven Hospital for treatment but later succumbed to his injuries.” The jury’s guilty verdict comes nearly four years after city police first arrested Battle in May 2022 for the May 2017 homicide. At the time of Battle’s arrest, then-Assistant Police Chief Karl Jacobson said that Battle was well known to city, state, and federal law enforcement, and that he had been arrested three times for various firearm offenses since Boone’s murder. Just like his convicted killer, Boone was a familiar person to city police. Street outreach workers lauded him back in 2008 for turning his life around, before he apparently fell back into trouble. Click here and here for previous stories about Boone’s shooting death in 2017. Click here to a read an article about how street outreach workers had hailed Boone in 2008 for turning around his life after being part of the Dixwell-based “Tribe” gang. And click here for a story about how a judge sentenced Boone to 18 months in prison on weapons and drug charges after the state’s attorney’s office rejected a local police bid to charge him with having committed a murder. The dispute led to tensions at the time between the state’s attorney and the cops, with a dramatic courtroom intervention by the region’s top prosecutor. State Judge Maureen M. Keegan presided over Battle’s jury trial. The case was prosecuted by Supervisory Assistant State’s Attorney Seth R. Garbarsky and Supervisory Assistant State’s Attorney Melissa R. Holmes, with assistance from Inspector Michael Mastropetre. Battle’s sentencing in this case is scheduled to take place in New Haven state court on April 7. The post 35-Year-Old Convicted Of Norman Boone’s Murder appeared first on New Haven Independent. ...read more read less