AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) - An Ohio jury found 17-year-old Brogan Rafferty guilty of murder on Tuesday in the deaths of three men, two of whom were lured to Ohio by a Craigslist ad promising work on a farm.
Rafferty and Richard Beasley, 53, were charged with murder in the deaths of the three men. Two of them answered the social media ad for a $300-a-week job as a caretaker on a farm about 100 miles south of Cleveland.
Although prosecutors said Beasley was the trigger man in the shooting deaths, they accused Rafferty of assisting in the crimes and the attempted murder of a fourth man, Scott Davis.
Rafferty was 16 when he was arrested in November 2011 but was tried as an adult. He faces up to life in prison in the killing of David Pauley, 51, of Norfolk, Virginia; Ralph Geiger, 56, of Akron, Ohio; and Timothy Kern, 47, of Massillon, Ohio.
The verdict was reached by a Summit County, Ohio, jury of seven women and five men. They took 20 hours to reach a decision.
(Editing by Greg McCune; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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