CLEVELAND — Hakeem-Ali Shomo, one of six people charged in the 2021 torture and murder of Alishah Pointer in East Cleveland, was found guilty by a jury on Tuesday.

Shomo is the last of the six defendants to either be convicted or plead guilty to charges related to Pointer's death.

According to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office, Shomo, 34, was found guilty of the following:

Two counts of aggravated murder

Two counts of murder

Two counts of felonious assault

Four counts of kidnapping

One count of conspiracy

In addition, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Mollie Ann Murphy found Shomo guilty of one count of having weapons under disability. Shomo will be sentenced on Jan. 7 at 10 a.m.

“Alishah Pointer's family has been waiting a long time for these five individuals to be held

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