By Andy Furillo
afurillo@sacbee.com
A Sacramento jury today convicted George Ellis Wallace of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two men in their 18th Avenue apartment last year.
Wallace, 38, told the jury "God bless you" after it returned verdicts that he murdered two witnesses to a non-fatal shooting for which his girlfriend has been accused.
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Patrick Marlette is likely to sentence Wallace to prison for the rest of his life with no chance of parole for the murder conviction that carried two special-circumstance allegations. One was for killing witnesses, the other for multiple murders.
The judge scheduled Wallace's sentencing for Oct. 29.
The fatal shootings of Clifford Eugene Brown, 54, and James Edward Turner, 60, took place after Wallace's girlfriend went to Brown's apartment in the 2200 block of 18th Avenue on Nov. 29 and shot him and his girlfriend, according to police and prosecutors.
Deputy District Attorney Donell Slivka's trial brief said Bryanna Warren, 32, shot Brown and his girlfriend after she had engaged in fistfight with the other woman the previous day. Warren was arrested in the shootings Dec. 2.
Her trial is scheduled to begin Tuesday. She's been charged with attempted murder.
According to the trial brief for Wallace, a man wearing a black ski mask broke into Brown's apartment Dec. 15. Sacramento police later found a copy of Bryanna Warren's police report in Wallace's Sunny Slope Drive apartment.
Investigators also retrieved Wallace's computer and found that he had been conducting Internet searches on Brown, the brief said.
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