Deon Glenn guilty in Maressia Patterson murder

YOUNGSTOWN — After deliberating 4 1/2 hours, an eight-woman, four-man jury has found Deon Glenn guilty of the murder of Maressia Patterson in a drive-by shooting on May 26, 2007, on the city’s North Side.

However, the jurors acquitted Glenn, 20, of Glenwood Avenue, of aggravated murder in her death. The murder charge Glenn was convicted of was a lesser included offense.

In the verdict it rendered this afternoon, the jury also convicted Glenn of five counts of attempted murder, one for each of the five other people he shot at.

Glenn, who was also convicted of the firearm specification attached to each charge, faces 20 years to life in prison when he is sentenced at 10 a.m. next Friday.

Patterson, 17, of Upland Avenue, was fatally shot in the back; and Akeem Minor, of Lauderdale Avenue, also 17, was wounded by the gunfire.

The verdicts were rendered at the end of a week-long trial before Judge Lou A. D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Patterson and Minor had left a party on Lora Avenue and were walking on Ford Avenue between Norwood and Crandall avenues, when witnesses told police six or seven shots were fired from a car.

Witnesses told police the shooting resulted from an on-line feud between groups at Chaney High School and the former Rayen School.