Jury delivers split verdict in Mobile double-murder trial involving dice game shootout

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – A jury on Friday delivered a split verdict in a double-murder case that centered on a shootout that erupted at an illegal dice game 5½ years ago. After deliberating Thursday afternoon and for about an hour on Friday, the jury found Jerome Marquis Williams, 39, of Mobile, guilty of murdering Willie Moffett but acquitted him of murder in the death of Carlos Cunningham. The jury also convicted him on one of two counts of second-degree assault and of shooting into an occupied vehicle and an occupied building.

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