The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the second-degree murder conviction of Tyrome L. Elder in the Nov. 7, 2009, handgun slaying of a Buffalo man.
Elder, 27, of Weston Avenue, Niagara Falls, is serving a sentence of 32 years to life for the shooting of Jacobi L. Lovett, 36, of Stanislaus Street, Buffalo. Lovett was shot in the left thigh as he sat in a green Jaguar on Niagara Avenue in the Falls in what police said was a robbery attempt. The bullet struck Lovett’s femoral artery, and he bled to death.
A Niagara County Court jury convicted Elder of murder and weapons charges in a March 2011 trial, but another jury acquitted a co-defendant, Earl McCoy of Rochester, three months later.
In a two-page ruling, the five-judge appeals court shot down every claim of error made by Elder against the trial judge, Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III.
Elder, 27, of Weston Avenue, Niagara Falls, is serving a sentence of 32 years to life for the shooting of Jacobi L. Lovett, 36, of Stanislaus Street, Buffalo. Lovett was shot in the left thigh as he sat in a green Jaguar on Niagara Avenue in the Falls in what police said was a robbery attempt. The bullet struck Lovett’s femoral artery, and he bled to death.
A Niagara County Court jury convicted Elder of murder and weapons charges in a March 2011 trial, but another jury acquitted a co-defendant, Earl McCoy of Rochester, three months later.
In a two-page ruling, the five-judge appeals court shot down every claim of error made by Elder against the trial judge, Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III.