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 8-year saga.

Jurors rejected the contentions from Sharpe’s attorney that he was insane when he went on 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.

“He knew exactly what he did. He was proud of what he did. And he needs to be held accountable for what he did,” Assistant District Attorney Dana C

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