ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A guilty verdict today in the murder trial of a Rochester man who prosecutors say orchestrated the killing of another man from his jail cell.
Jurors found 33-year-old Willie “Boss” McCullough guilty of murder in the first degree for the shooting death of 35-year-old Demetric Tatum on Clay Avenue in February of last year.
Prosecutors say McCullough, who shot and wounded Tatum in 2012, arranged for 25-year-old Donkavius Howard to shoot and kill Tatum, in order to prevent him from testifying in his upcoming assault trial.
Howard was acquitted in connection to the killing.
Tatum was shot to death on the front porch of his Clay Avenue home in front of his first two young children on Feb. 1.