Washington, D.C. – A 22-year-old Southeast District of Columbia man, Deshawn Glover, 22, was found guilty today by a Superior Court jury of first-degree murder while armed and related weapons charges for the fatal shooting of Roland Brooks in June 2007, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor announced.

Glover faces a minimum sentence of 30 years in prison, and a potential maximum sentence of 125 years of incarceration. Sentencing before the Honorable Neal E. Kravitz is set for January 16, 2009.

According to the evidence presented at trial, Glover encountered the victim at a party on June 16, 2007, at about 11 p.m., inside an apartment at 820 Southern Avenue, SE (PSA 703). Believing, incorrectly, that Mr. Brooks was somehow involved in an earlier fatal shooting of a friend of the defendant, the defendant announced to several persons inside the party, beyond earshot of Mr. Brooks, that he was going to kill Mr. Brooks. The defendant then invited Mr. Brooks to walk with him to a nearby liquor store. One of the party-goers tried to persuade Mr. Brooks not to go with the defendant, but was unsuccessful. About 30 minutes later, as the defendant and Mr. Brooks were about to re-enter the apartment building, the defendant drew a .32 caliber pistol and shot Mr. Brooks five times.

Mr. Brooks, who was 26 years old, died a few minutes later. He left behind a wife and two young daughters.

Immediately after shooting Mr. Brooks, the defendant fled from the area. He was arrested two weeks later.

In announcing the verdict, U.S. Attorney Taylor expressed his appreciation to Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Detectives Elbert Griffin and Stanley Farmer and Officers David Lack, Ravi Hiller, Robert Overmyer, and Robert McCollum. U.S. Attorney Taylor also commended the work of Paralegal Sandra Lane, the employees of the USAO’s Litigation Technology Support Section, and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael C. Liebman, who prosecuted the case at trial, and Douglas Klein, who supervised the grand jury investigation.