A Far South Side man was convicted of gunning down a 71-year-old grandfather taking a regular walk in Chinatown in 2021 in a bold daylight killing that frightened a community already reeling from an uptick in violence.

Jurors before Judge Domenica A. Stephenson at the Leighton Criminal Court Building deliberated for just an hour Thursday before convicting Alphonso Joyner, 27, of first-degree murder of Woom Sing Tse following a five-day trial.

Prosecutors said surveillance video captured the Dec. 7, 2021, attack on Tse walking near 23rd Place and South Princeton Avenue when Joyner, from the driver’s seat of his blue Toyota sedan, fired six shots at Tse.

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After Tse fell to t

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