A Clark County jury on Friday found a man guilty of shooting an acquaintance in the abdomen.
After several hours of deliberation over two days, the jury unanimously voted to convict Reysel Perez-Martinez of one count of first-degree assault. The jury voted to acquit him of first-degree attempted murder.
First-degree assault, a Class A felony, carries a minimum sentence of just under eight years in prison. Jurors returned a special finding that the crime was committed with a deadly weapon, which tacks on an additional two years.
Senior Deputy Prosecutor Camara Banfield said in her closing statements on Thursday that Perez-Martinez went into the home of Eric Luna-Perez, an alleged drug dealer, on the day in question. After a confrontation, prosecutors alleged the defendant pulled a gun on Luna-Perez and shot him in the abdomen and then attempted to shoot him in the head, when the gun misfired.