BOSTON, Aug. 10, 2018—The man who shot 31-year-old Marcus Hall to death, killing him outside the barbershop where his young son was getting a haircut, was convicted of murder today, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 30, of first-degree murder under both theories available to them – deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. Jurors also convicted Shakespeare of unlawfully carrying the firearm he used to kill Hall outside the Hair It Is barbershop on Blue Hill Avenue on June 14, 2016.

“This was a day long awaited by Mr. Hall’s loved ones,” Conley said. “The grief and trauma to his family and community lingers even now, but I hope they can take some satisfaction knowing that justice was done. The verdict speaks for itself – this was a cold-blooded and vicious shooting in broad daylight, and the jury clearly saw it as such.”

During six days of testimony, Assistant District Attorney Catherine Ham of the DA’s Homicide Unit proved that Shakespeare was inside the barbershop when Hall and his 4-year-old son came in just before 12:20 pm. The two men had a tense verbal exchange followed by an argument in the parking lot. Shakespeare left the scene, the evidence showed, then returned a short time later, using a circuitous route through back yards and wooded areas. In a second confrontation, he shot Hall, causing fatal injuries, and then left Boston for New York, where Boston Police apprehended him early last year.

Katherine Moran was the DA’s assigned victim-witness advocate. Attorney James Greenberg represented the defendant. Judge Christine Roach scheduled a sentencing hearing for Monday at 9:30 am in courtroom 906.

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