ANCHORAGE, Alaska—
An Anchorage jury has found three men not guilty in the 2009 shooting death of a young man in a mall parking lot.Dawud Johnson, Ajamu McCoy and Jerry Lynn Taylor Jr. had been charged with murder and evidence tampering in the death of Joe Alfred Young Jr.
The jury deliberated for eight or nine hours before the verdict was announced Friday evening.
Lawyers for the three men argued their clients shot the 23-year-old Young in self-defense.
The shooting happened in the middle of the afternoon outside the Sports Authority off the Old Seward Highway, in one of the city's busiest shopping areas.
