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Verdict in for 3rd suspect of Auto Zone murder and robbery

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - The verdict is in for the third and final suspect in a deadly Auto Zone robbery back in 2006.

On Thursday, a jury found triggerman Melvin Dixon guilty of aggravated murder and robbery.

In May of 2006 three men walked into the Auto Zone on McCarney Road with a weapon in an attempted robbery. Fifty-two-year-old store clerk Edward Agee was shot and killed.

Nine months later, police arrested Jamaad Jackson and Melvin Dixon for the crime. A week later investigators tracked down Reginald Everson in California. Everson and Jackson took plea deals.  In June Everson admitted to robbery and last year Jackson pled to involuntary manslaughter and robbery. Both will likely face a decade behind bars.

And now the triggerman, 27-year-old Melvin Dixon, learned his fate as a jury found him guilty of murder and robbery. It took the 12 men and women under an hour to make the decision.

Four and a half years of grief and pain spilled out after Dixon's verdict was read, as the family of Edward Agee celebrated the conclusion to the case and thanked the prosecutor for the result.

Dixon is now awaiting sentencing for the crime.