Jury finds Youngstown man guilty of attempted murder

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Robert Armstrong

YOUNGSTOWN — A six-man, six-woman jury deliberated only 30 minutes today before finding Robert Armstrong guilty of trying to kill Eric Weaver, who was shot nine times at his Campbell residence on June 23.

Armstrong, 26, of North Hazelwood Avenue, faces six to 13 years in prison when he is sentenced at 9 a.m. Thursday by Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, who presided over the two-day trial.

Weaver, who sat in the back of the courtroom, declined to comment after the jury rendered its guilty verdict against his assailant on an attempted murder charge with a firearm specification.

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