After a marathon deliberation session, a Multnomah County jury found Abdikadir Osman guilty of second-degree manslaughter for shooting a man during a brawl inside a downtown Portland hotel room.

The Monday verdict, delivered after five days sequestered in the jury room, brings with it a mandatory sentence of six years and three months in prison, far less than the lifetime punishment prosecutors sought by filing a murder charge.

The verdict wraps up just one of two pending murder cases against Osman.

Now 27, Osman has been in custody since his arrest a week after the early morning Oct. 6, 2020 killing of Shawn Fujioka inside a 10th-floor room at the Marriott Waterfront hotel on Southwest Naito Parkway.

Osman claimed on the witness stand the shooting was in self-defense, saying he’

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