TAMPA, Fla. - A jury has convicted five men of first-degree murder in the death of a four-year-old girl.

After almost two full days of jury deliberation, jurors delivered guilty verdicts on all counts for Zvante Sampson, Jaylin Bedward, James Denson, Quandarious Hammond and Andrew Thompson.

The backstory:

The five men were charged with first-degree murder in the 2021 killing of Suni Bell.

The state said the 4-year-old girl and her family were coming back from a celebration of life for a family member who had died, and they were headed to a get-together following the event that night in August 2021. Prosecutors said Suni's uncle, Willy Brown, was driving the car and her mother, Mary Harrison, was in the passenger's seat.

They couldn't find the location of the get-together, so they

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