A jury found Adrian Hopper not guilty on two counts of first-degree murder in a verdict late Monday afternoon before Judge Warren Wilbert.
Hopper, 28, had been charged in the shooting deaths of DeAndre Reed and Princess Sears on Jan. 8, 2007. Reed, 24, died that night after being shot in the apartment he shared with Sears in the 400 block of North Oliver. Sears, 23, died as a result of her gunshot wounds three weeks later after she’d left the hospital.
The defense had attacked Sears’ identification of a picture her father showed her in the hospital of Hopper and produced family and friends saying he had been in Topeka the night of the shooting.
Hopper won’t go free, however. He faces prison sentences as a result of two other convictions related to being a felon in possession of a firearm.