A jury acquitted a Ruskin man in a 2019 shooting that left one person dead during a gathering at a Palmetto house, according to court records.
Benjamin Lang, 36, avoided a second-degree murder conviction after prosecutors argued he fatally shot 28-year-old Benny Williams IV four times during a meetup where people were playing video games.
Lang’s defense argued the state’s case relied on conflicting witness testimony and lacked physical evidence tying him to the shooting, according to court records. In a motion for acquittal, his attorney pointed to discrepancies in what witnesses claimed they saw and noted that investigators never recovered the gun used in the shooting…