A jury on Monday convicted a man in the shooting of a Baltimore police officer in 2014.
Gregg Thomas, 37, was convicted of charges of attempted first degree murder, using a handgun in a crime of violence and prohibited possession of a gun, according to the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office.
His sentencing is set for May 15.
Thomas was accused of shooting Sgt. Keith Mcneill in March 2014. Mcneill was outside of an automotive shop in the Berea neighborhood of East Baltimore when he was shot.
The trial was Thomas's fourth — the other three trials resulted in mistrials or the jury could not come a unanimous verdict.
"The result deserved by Sgt. Mcneill and the Baltimore Police Department took nearly three years to materialize, but the price paid for justice is always worth the cost of its pursuit," Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby said in a statement.
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Thomas' attorneys said that the state's case relied on a single witness who was unreliable; prosecutors argued witness testimony and closed-circuit television footage identified Thomas as the culprit.
Prosecutors have said Mcneill was having his truck worked on at a Belair Road automotive shop owned by a friend when a masked man banged on the door of his truck, then fired eight shots at him. Mcneill was hospitalized for more than a year.
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