Nearly two years since Columbus State University graduate Ryan Boles was fatally shot, a jury has found his accused killer guilty of murder and armed robbery, according to Russell County District Attorney Rick Chancey.
Jadarius Snipes, who is now 18 but was a minor at the time, was convicted Thursday in the Russell County Judicial Center. The jury deliberated for about an hour and a half, Chancey said.
Boles was found shot and killed in the parking lot of a Phenix City Synovus Bank branch after a Christmas party in December 2023, the Russell County Coroner’s Office said at the time. He was 23, and was an aspiring filmmaker…