In a recent trial that has gripped the local community, Philadelphia man George Javon Clark, aged 34, was convicted of the third-degree murder of Herbert Lyals back in July 2016, a crime that occurred in Bristol Township on the victim’s 38th birthday. Lyals, remembered as a devoted father to his three children, had his life tragically cut short in what began as an armed robbery, according to information from the Bucks County’s official website.
According to the evidence presented in court, Clark and an accomplice targeted Lyals under the belief that he possessed a significant sum of money, culminating in the deadly encounter on Truman Street. Lyals, who had lived in the nearby Bloomsdale neighborhood, was remembered during the closing arguments by Deputy District Attorney Thomas C. Gannon as a “velvet teddy bear,” an assertion made while prosecuting the trial alongside Deputy District Attorney Chad Kovack. A statement obtained by Bucks County, Gannon highlighted the magnitude of the loss felt by Lyals’ family and community…