Waterloo, IA (AP) — A judge has convicted a Waterloo man to life behind bars for what prosecutors described as the revenge killing of another man.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that Judge Linda Fangman ordered 22-year-old Raymond Birden Jr. to life in prison for the 2018 death of 22-year-old Shavondes Martin.
Martin was acquitted earlier that year of killing Birden’s brother in 2016. Martin had been one of three people charged with the 2016 drive-by shooting of Birden’s brother, Otavious Brown.
Prosecutors say Birden searched for Martin on May 31, 2018. Martin was found hours later shot to death in a Waterloo alley.
