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Offley also convicted in Pawtucket murder-shooting

04:59 PM EST on Wednesday, December 5, 2007

By projo.com and Journal staff writers

PROVIDENCE -- After deliberating for two hours, a Superior Court jury today found Barry Offley guilty on all counts related to the murder of 24-year-old Jessica Imran last year at her Pawtucket apartment, where he went with his uncle, who is now behind bars for the same crime.

The jury of five men and seven women late this afternoon returned guilty verdicts against Offley, 20, on the following counts:

* The murder of Imran.

* Conspiracy to murder Imran.

* Assault with intent to commit murder, pertaining to the shooting of Julia Lang, who survived and testified against Offley at trial.

* Discharge of a firearm, death resulting.

* Discharge of a firearm, injury resulting.

* Illegally carrying a firearm.

* Conspiracy to murder Lang.

Imran’s mother and other family hugged prosecutors and police after the verdict was announced in court.

Offley faces two consecutive life sentences for the murder and for discharging a firearm in a crime of violence, death resulting.

Authorities have alleged that in the early morning of July 27, 2006, Offley went with uncle Alonzo P. Shelton, 29, to Imran's apartment at 88 Lawn Ave., Pawtucket.

Lang, who was Shelton’s estranged girlfriend, was shot but survived, and Imran was shot to death.

Shelton last spring was found guilty of murder, conspiracy to murder and assault with intent to murder. He was sentenced in July to serve at minimum of 72 years in prison.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with reports from Journal staff writer John Castellucci