A Suffolk Superior Court jury today acquitted a Roxbury man of murder in connection with the March 30, 2007, shooting death of 18-year-old Dwayne Graham as Graham rode a crowded MBTA bus.

JONATHAN SANDERS (D.O.B. 7/8/89) had been charged with murder for the incident, in which Graham was shot in the head as his Route 23 bus was stopped near the intersection of Normandy and Washington streets. Sanders died of his injury the next day.

No witnesses at trial could identify the person who fired the fatal shot from outside the vehicle. Four witnesses testified that Sanders had admitted to being the gunman in the days and weeks following Graham’s death.

Sanders was represented by attorney Peter Marano. Kara Hayes and Fabiola Pierre were the DA’s assigned victim-witness advocates.