A Brooklyn jury came to a split decision today on accused serial killer Stephen Sakai, convicting the former bar bouncer on two murders but finding him not guilty on a third.
Sakai, 32, showed no reaction as the jury forewoman read the verdicts.
Victor Matos, the brother of Irving Matos, 42, the victim in the murder for which Sakai was found not guilty, watched in shock from the gallery, then put his head down on the bench in front.
“Right now, I feel like garbage,” he said. “I don’t understand how it happened. But it happened. Not guilty verdict.”
Sakai faces up to 50 years to life for the murders of 56-year-old Wayne Tyson and 41-year-old Edwin Mojica. He also faces an additional murder charges in Manhattan for a May 2006 shooting spree outside a Chelsea bar, Opus 22, in which he allegedly killed one and injured three.