After a five-day jury trial, the two men who shot State Trooper Adam Cothron two years ago at a traffic stop have been convicted.
According to a statement from the District Attorney Bryant Dunaway, Putnam County jury convicted Timothy Laquan Davis, Jr. and Braze Roland Rucker of Attempted First Degree Murder of a law enforcement officer, Employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony, Theft of property over $10,000 in value, and possession of a firearm by person previously convicted of a violent felony.
The verdict comes nearly two years after Rucker shot Cothron while conducting a routine traffic stop on Interstate 40 in Putnam County. Rucker and Davis were driving a stolen car and after they were stopped by Cothron, rolled the window down and shot him, sped off, leaving Cothron on the shoulder of the road. The two men had previous violent felony convictions…