Jury finds 3 guilty in 2018 slaying of NJ youth football coach – NBC10 Philadelphia

The three men accused of shot and killed a New Jersey man in 2018 were found guilty by a jury.

Eugene Cosby, 48, of Malaga, Will El-Bey, 28, of Vineland, and Clifton Bailey, 33, of Camden, were charged with the murder of Joseph L .Jones on August 9, 2018. , after a youth football practice at Lakeside Middle School in Millville, New Jersey.

The Cumberland County jury deliberated for just under two hours before the three guilty men.

Every man faces murder and conspiracy to commit murder, among other related charges.

Jones was shot ten times just after 8 p.m. in the parking lot of Lakeside Middle School. He was taken to Inspira Medical Center in Vineland, where he died from his injuries.

“This homicide was particularly disturbing because it was committed in broad daylight on a soccer practice field in front of numerous children,” Cumberland County District Attorney Jennifer Webb-McRae said in 2018.

Cosby, El-Bey and Bailey were joined by unknown others to coordinate the attack and are accused of traveling to the school together when the shooting occurred.

At least one person involved was in a car that ran away from school northbound on Route 55 moments later, investigators said. Someone in the car then fired at the officers a short time later, but no one was hit and the officers did not return fire.

Cosby and Bailey then got rid of the cars that were used in the murder, investigators said. Cosby and El-Bey were also found to have convinced other people to provide false information to officials.

Officials said Cosby and El-Bey were arrested on October 10, 2018, while Bailey was arrested on November 12, 2018.

Three other unnamed suspects were arrested and all pleaded guilty for their involvement in the case.

Each of the men faces up to life in prison with a mandatory period of conditional ineligibility for 85 percent of the prison sentence imposed, officials explained.