By Shayna Jacobs
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — An East Harlem man killed an innocent bystander — a young mother — and shot a child and an elderly man in spurts of violence that occurred three years apart, a Manhattan jury decided Wednesday.
A jury found Dan Evans, 26, guilty of murder, attempted murder and other charges for killing 26-year-old Lesenia Figueroa on Aug. 16, 2006, when he fired at a group of purported street rivals at East 117th Street between First and Pleasant Avenues.
He was also convicted, at a trial that began earlier this month, of striking 11-year-old boy in the ankle and 77-year-old man in the buttocks when he fired 13 shots in a shootout at a basketball court at the East River Houses in 2009. Both victims survived and testified against him.
Evans was arrested in 2009 for shooting and implicated himself in Figueroa's murder when speaking to authorities, prosecutors said.
He will be sentenced to up to life years in prison on July 19.
