A teenager who was wrongly accused 10 years ago in the murder of an 11-year-old girl has been convicted of attempted murder in a 2006 double shooting in the Chicago suburb of Calumet Park.
MARKHAM, Ill. (AP) — A teenager who was wrongly accused 10 years ago in the murder of an 11-year-old girl has been convicted of attempted murder in a 2006 double shooting in the Chicago suburb of Calumet Park. Cook County Judge Brian Flaherty on Tuesday convicted 19-year-old Romarr Gipson of attempted murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and aggravated discharge of a firearm into a vehicle during a bench trial. Gipson is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 18. In 1998, a 7-year-old Gipson and an 8-year-old boy were accused in the death of Ryan Harris, making them the youngest murder suspects in the nation at the time. DNA tests later led prosecutors to charge a convicted sex offender, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.