A member of the notorious Lucerne Street Doggz was convicted of murdering a one-time associate today as a former 911 dispatcher was acquitted of stabbing her husband to death after he came home late on his 40th birthday.

Juries in the separate trials of JAMES “GUNNA” WALKER (D.O.B. 9/9/86) and SHARON FITZPATRICK (D.O.B. 7/26/71) delivered their verdicts almost simultaneously this afternoon in Suffolk Superior Court. Walker was convicted of second-degree murder for the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Antoine “Pun” Perkins on July 22, 2006, while Fitzpatrick was acquitted of the same offense for the stabbing death of her husband, Sylvester Mitchell, in their Evans Street home in the early morning hours of May 5, 2007.

Assistant District Attorney Edward Krippendorf proved that Walker shot Perkins dead as Perkins and another man sat on the front steps of his Morton Street home with a friend. Prosecutors said that Walker was angry at Perkins for being a “snitch” – Perkins, evidence suggested, had led an angry drug dealer’s boyfriend to Walker’s home after Walker and others stole a large quantity of marijuana in what was supposed to be a drug deal.

Prosecutors in the Fitzpatrick case introduced evidence and testimony suggesting that she was upset at her husband for staying out late on the night preceding his birthday after she had prepared a birthday cake for him; they argued that she stabbed him in anger, not self defense as she claimed. Prior to today’s acquittal, another jury hopelessly deadlocked on that case earlier this year.

Walker will be sentenced on Monday. He faces a mandatory life term. He was represented by attorney James Boudreau. Katherine Moran is the assigned victim-witness advocate.

Fitzpatrick was represented by attorney Rosemary Scapicchio. Jennifer Sears was the assigned victim-witness advocate.