Jury finds Matthew Hall guilty in shooting of 2 Tulsa police officers
JEANETTE QUEZADA, 2 WORKS FORYOU.A JURY FOUND THE GETAWAYDRIVER IN THE SHOOTING OF TWOTULSA POLICE OFFICERS GUILTY.MATTHEW HALL'S TRIAL ONLYLASTED TWO DAYS - WITH THE JURYDELIBERATING THREE HOURS BEFOREREACHING A VERDICT THISAFTERNOON.HALL WS CONVICTED OF TWOCOUNTS OF ACCESSORY TO A FELONYAFTER HE DROVE THE SUSPECT,DAVID WARE, AWAY FROM THE SCENE.2 WORKS FOR YOU'S SIERRAPIZARRO JOINS US NOW WITH WHAT'SNEXT IN THIS CASE.MATTHEW HALL IS NOW HELD WITHOUTBAILWAITING ON HIS FORMAL SENTENCING-WHICH WON'T HAPPEN UNTIL MARCH22.WE DO KNOW THE JURY ISRECOMMENDING HE SERVE 12 YEARSIN PRISON FOR EACH OF THOSE'ACCESSORY TO A FELONY' CHARGES.The judge will decide if heserves his sentence concurrentlyor consecutively.HALL'S ATTORNEY, Brian Martin,SAYS HE WOULD'VE PREFERRED ALESSER PUNISHMENTBUT ISN'T SURPRISED BY THEVERDICT.04;01;29;11 - 04:01:40;18HALL'S ATTORNEY, BRIAN MARTIN"This is a highly emotionaltrial just because of thecircumstances around it.
Ifigured the jury was going tohave a tough time putting thataside, even though Matt hadnothing to do with the violentacts."03;55:43;08 - 03:56;02;38KUNZWEILER: "I'm very justgrateful to the fact that wewere able to get this case totrial.
Judge Musseman deservesan awful lot of credit.
Hemarshalled us out to get to thispoint.
I think our communitycertainly needed a little bit ofclosure.
I'm not saying thiscase is going to give thatclosure but it's given us atleast a step forward."Hall was accused of driving thegetaway car after police sayDavid Ware shot Sergeant CraigJohnson and officer AurashZarkeshan during a traffic stopin June.Sergeant Johnson died.Officer Zarkeshan was seriouslywounded.Ware is set to go on trial inJune.seriously wounded.Officer Zarkeshan was SergeantJohnson died.a traffic stop in June.Aurash Zarkeshan during Johnsonand officer Ware shot SergeantCraig after police say Daviddriving the getaway car afterpolice say David Ware shotSergeant Craig Johnson andofficer Aurash Zarkeshan duringa traffic stop in June.I'VE POSTED MORE ON THIS STORY