FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - Jurors returned their verdict Thursday for a 22-year-old Fort Wayne man charged in a deadly 2021 shooting.

Jalan Xzayvior Carpenter was found guilty of murdering 19-year-old John Peterson, along with a sentencing enhancement for using a gun in the slaying. He faces a potential sentence of up to 85 years in prison.

Peterson was gunned down near the intersection of Vance Avenue and Reed Road on March 26, 2021. A man who was in the car with him during the shooting said they were driving when Peterson noticed a Chevy Tahoe behind them, court records say.

“Someone’s getting out,” Peterson told the driver before the gunfire began, with police finding 17 .300 Blackout rifle shell casings at the scene.

Other witnesses told police Carpenter and the victim were at a rem

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