JERSEY CITY -- A wild and tense scene unfolded inside a Hudson County courtroom and carried over outside the building after a jury cleared a man of all charges in a 2013 murder case.

Keeshawn Browning, 23, sat with his hands over his face and head resting on the table in front of him as the jury found him not guilty of all counts connected to the May 12 murder of 23-year-old Hikeem Neals.

Nearly a dozen Hudson County Sheriffs officers lined the courtroom as dozens of the victim's family members and friends stormed out of the room following the verdict, some screaming at Browning along the way.

"God get him," one woman yelled at Browning as a Sheriff's officer ordered her to stop her outburst.

"I hate you," another woman shouted.

The sound of people crying and screaming boomed throughout the hallways of the Administration Building as the angry group was escorted outside. Sheriff's officers would not let anyone leave the courtroom until Neals' family was completely out of the building.

Family and friends continued to show their disgust with the jury's verdict back outside of the courthouse. A woman who identified herself as Neals' aunt said Browning will likely be dead soon because "that's all they doing in the streets right now, killing each other."

"They had 12 people that was not paying attention to the case," the woman said, referring to the jury. "One of them was biting on his nails, one of them was playing with her hair, and not one time was they paying attention."

Dozens of officers patrolled the front of the building while the family gathered outside. Many family members criticized police for staring at them as they paced back and forth up Newark Avenue.

When asked if they believed the jury was given enough evidence to convict Browning, a woman who identified herself as Neals' mother said "the evidence was there, there, there."

When asked about the prosecution's performance, his mother said Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Leo Hernandez "did an awesome job, he went from point A to point Z, that's what he did.

"That was my f---ing son," the anguished mother shouted. "Put that in the f---king paper, that was my son."

"And they still found him not guilty," another woman yelled.

Neals died after he was was shot in the head through a window of a Kensington Avenue basement apartment. The prosecution alleged that Browning's cellphone activity ceased at the time of the shooting, while surveillance footage also showed two of Browning's alleged accomplices breaking into a third accomplice's car -- which had two guns hidden under the hood.

Browning's three co-defendants all previously pleaded guilty to charges related to the man's murder.

Outside the courtroom, Browning's attorney Scott Finckenauer -- who asked Superior Court Judge Paul DePascale to dismiss the charges because of a lack of evidence -- said the verdict was reasonable "based on the evidence the prosecutors presented."

"There was no evidence that supported that Keeshawn Browning was involved in this," he said. "The jury reviewed it all and they reached the same decision."

Finckenauer said Browning looks forward to finally sitting down for dinner with his family tonight after three years in jail.

Had he been convicted of all four charges, Browning faced life in prison.