A Virginia jury convicted a man for murdering another man after blocking him in with his car as the victim was trying to get to work.

Jalen Garces, 30, was found guilty last week of second-degree murder and using a firearm in the commission of murder in the June 2023 shooting of 33-year-old Ali Karim Muhammad, the Norfolk Commonwealth's Attorney said .

The scene unfolded shortly after 10 p.m. on June 29, 2023, when Garces drove to Muhammad's apartment on First Bay Street in Norfolk and parked his car. Shortly thereafter, Muhammad walked out of his apartment for work and saw that a car was blocking him in, according to prosecutors. Muhammad asked a bystander about the car and who it belonged to in hopes that it could have been moved.

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