SECOND MAN CONVICTED IN FIGHT-TURNED-SHOOTING

A Roxbury man faces sentencing Wednesday following his conviction for a double shooting outside a popular Roxbury bar two years ago, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury on Friday convicted NATHAN KINNEY (D.O.B. 2/26/84) of armed assault with intent to murder, two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious injury, and unlawful possession of a firearm.

The charges arose out of a fight inside Slade’s Bar and Grill on Tremont Street on the morning of Nov. 22, 2008, and Kinney’s choice to produce a handgun and shoot one combatant and a doorman, injuring both. Jurors acquitted Kinney of an additional count of assault and battery.

“We’ll be recommending prison time,” Conley said. “The facts of the case and the decisions that gave rise to them demand it.”

Kinney’s co-defendant, EDWARD MOON (D.O.B. 4/2/86) of Dorchester, is currently serving two and a half years in jail for his role in the fracas.

Assistant District Attorney Nicholas Walsh of Conley’s Special Prosecutions Unit proved that Kinney and Moon entered Slade’s together at about 11:30 p.m. but that Kinney left before his friend. At about 2:00 a.m., when the establishment closed, Moon became involved in a fight with a 33-year-old Brighton man.

Walsh proved that Kinney, who had remained in the area outside the bar, left in a silver Chrysler 300 and returned a short time later, only to reengage the altercation. As Moon grappled with the victim, Walsh demonstrated, Kinney pulled a handgun, fired multiple times, and hit both the victim and a doorman. Both aggressors fled the scene.

The primary victim was hospitalized at Boston Medical Center with gunshot wounds to the right side of his back and his right arm. The doorman was struck in the lower hip and transported to Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Moon was apprehended by Boston Police the next day. Kinney fled to Alabama and was apprehended in March 2009. He was represented at trial by attorney John Tardiff. Jennifer Sears was the victim-witness advocate assigned to the case.

Suffolk Superior Court Judge Thomas Connolly will sentence Kinney on Wednesday in courtroom 806.