It took a jury of six men and six women less than 40 minutes to convict Ryan Joseph Sharpe of second-degree murder at the end of a weeklong trial on Friday evening.

The verdict was the culmination of an eight-year saga.

Jurors rejected the contentions from Sharpe’s attorney that he was insane when he committed a murderous shooting spree over the span of three months in 2017. He shot four men at random, killing three of them.

Carroll Breeden Sr., a 66-year-old ex-BREC supervisor, was one of the deceased victims. Sharpe shot the man in the chest as he was doing yard work on his multi-acre property along Port Hudson-Pride Road in September 2017.

District Judge Colette Greggs, who presided over the trial, set Sharpe’s sentencing date for Dec. 12. He faces a mandatory life term in priso

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