Jury returns guilty verdict in murder of Syracuse handyman

Syracuse, N.Y. -- An Onondaga County jury has convicted Lynnquan Kellam of murder in the 2013 shooting of Arthur Bullock, a Syracuse handyman.

The jury returned the verdict this afternoon. After jurors were unable to reach a verdict Monday, they were instructed by Onondaga County Judge Joseph Fahey to reconsider the evidence.

Kellam was convicted of one count of second-degree murder, three counts of robbery in the first degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.

Kellam is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 18. He could receive a sentence of 25 years to life on the murder charge, according to prosecutor Melinda McGunnigle.

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The same case against Kellam, 28, went to trial last summer, but the jury deadlocked 11 to 1 after three days of deliberation.

Kellam was accused of shooting Bullock on Bullock's front porch at 142 Fage Ave. Bullock was shot in the head during a robbery and died at Upstate University Hospital.

Kellam, who was on the porch, said he was not the shooter, but another victim of the actual robber. The prosecution argued that an eyewitness saw Kellam pull the trigger and that others corroborated the witness's story.

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Jury returns guilty verdict in murder of Syracuse handyman