A Cobb County jury convicted a Marietta man Friday in connection with a 2013 fatal double shooting outside a local eatery, District Attorney Vic Reynolds announced.
After a week-long trial, the jury deliberated just over an hour before convicting Isadore Walker Barboza, 46, of malice and felony murder, armed robbery and other charges tied to the shooting that left a robbery victim and a fellow robber dead, Reynolds said in an email.
Reynolds said Barboza and two partners targeted two people outside Doc’s Food and Spirits in Smyrna on Oct. 28, 2013. But things went awry when one of the victims, Ebone Driskell, pulled her own 9mm pistol and shot Barboza’s cohort, Quondre Bentley, in the neck.
Barboza then shot the 32-year-old Driskell with a .380-caliber handgun and fled in her vehicle with Bentley. Driskell died in the parking lot, and Barboza then abandoned the vehicle and the dying Bentley, Reynolds said.
Police broke the case by tracking down an accomplice, Renee Elizabeth Harris, 26, through Bentley’s cellphone.
The East Point woman, who testified against Barboza, admitted to driving the two robbers and picking up Barboza after he dumped the stolen car, Reynolds said.
Superior Court Judge Robert Flournoy sentenced Barboza to mandatory life in prison without parole for the murder of Driskell and the felony murder of Bentley. under the law making a felon guilty of murder if his crime results in an unintentional death.
Harris will be sentenced at a later date.
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