3 men accused of deadly Norristown robbery found guilty on all charges

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — Three men accused of a deadly robbery in Norristown that targeted a man who’d recently won several thousand dollars gambling have been found guilty on all charges.

The jury deliberated for about an hour and a half Monday . Jerry Butler, 29, and Daquan Allen, 30, were convicted of second-degree murder for the Jan. 20 robbery and murder of 35-year-old William Carter at Wood and Powell streets in Norristown. They both face mandatory life in prison.

Damon Brantley, 18, was convicted of first-degree murder, as he pulled the trigger, killing Carter during the robbery. Because he was a juvenile at the time, he'll be sentenced at a later date and could face anywhere from 35 years to life in prison.

Defense attorneys for the three men tried to poke holes in the case against their clients, but Prosecutor Megan Carney says while the case relied on circumstantial evidence, investigators were able to connect the dots.

“You can't ignore just one piece of evidence, and you can't just take it on its face,” she said. “It's that totality. And I think that's what the jury considered, and that's what we argued, and that's where we got the result that we did.”

Two cooperating co-defendants testified against the three men, including Carter’s ex-girlfriend who set the robbery in motion by putting a tracking device in his car and sharing his location with Allen.

The mother of Carter’s one-year-old daughter says the guilty verdict is a relief but it won’t bring him back.