All 5 guilty in South Capitol Street massacre

Published May 7, 2012 4:00am ET



A D.C. Superior Court jury on Monday found all five men guilty of murder in a series of shootings that left five young people dead and nine wounded over an eight-day period in 2010.

The violence started over a piece of costume jewelry, setting off a chain reaction of revenge and culminating in the mass shootings on South Capitol Street, the city’s deadliest episode of street violence in decades.

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