PATERSON — There was bedlam in Superior Court in Paterson on Monday after a jury convicted two men of murder in the gangster-style killing of a city man.

First there were tears, then there were screams as the jury foreman calmly pronounced Jamal Wade and Gyasi Allen guilty on all counts of murder, weapons possession and receiving stolen property in connection with the death of Cosmeik Gee. Both defendants remained calm as the courtroom erupted into chaos.

Family and friends of the defendants packed one side of the courtroom to hear the verdict, which came toward the end of the second day of deliberations. Friends and relatives of the victim sat on the other side of the courtroom.

Judge Sohail Mohammed asked everyone to remain calm before the verdict was read. But that plea fell on deaf ears as the jury foreman, in a barely audible voice, pronounced guilty verdicts, first for Wade and then for Allen.

"What?!" a woman yelled from the third row. There followed several minutes of screaming and shouting, and several women in the gallery broke down in tears.

Sheriff's officers initially stood back when the whoops and shouts erupted, but they moved in as the chorus of screams grew louder.

"I can't even hear him!" said one woman, tears streaming down her cheeks. "What's he saying?" The woman was referring to the jury foreman, who announced the verdict in such a hushed tone that it seemed no one in the courtroom could hear him.

A few of the jurors appeared frightened by the outburst, but most on the panel remained stoic, staring straight ahead as the mayhem ensued. Sheriff's officers eventually moved into the wooden benches and began removing people from the courtroom.

No one was hurt, and no one was arrested. But the judge told the sheriff's officers to make sure that anyone who had left the courtroom would not be allowed back in. After the hallway was cleared, the jurors were escorted to the elevator by a phalanx of sheriff's officers.

The jury deliberated for the better part of two days before delivering its verdict. Wade, 34, and Allen, 28, were convicted of shooting Gee, 29, as he sat in his car near the corner of 12th Avenue and East 23rd Street on the night of Sept. 30, 2016. At trial, the state alleged that Wade and Allen arrived in a stolen car, with Wade behind the wheel. Unbeknownst to the defendants at the time, police had attached a GPS device to the stolen vehicle several days before and were tracking it.

The state built its case around several pieces of surveillance video. One video showed Wade and Allen together in a liquor store in Paterson about an hour before the shooting. Another showed the car stopping near Gee's vehicle. A man, who the state contended was Allen, is seen getting out of the car and firing several shots at Gee, who died of gunshot wounds at the scene.

Both men face up to life in prison when they are sentenced on Feb. 6.

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