A 23-year-old man has been convicted in the 2022 fatal shooting of a Birmingham teen.

A Jefferson County jury on Wednesday found Martez Willearl Jefferson guilty of two counts of capital murder in the slaying of 18-year-old Rayshod “Shod” Goldthwaite.

He was also convicted of first-degree assault for a minor passenger and discharging a gun into an occupied vehicle.

Authorities said the Birmingham man in the weeks before Goldthwaite’s murder had threatened him if he testified against one of Jefferson’s close friends.

The deadly shooting happened on June 5, 2022.

The trial for Jefferson, who previously pleaded guilty in an unrelated shooting that critically injured a Birmingham 15-year-old, began March 3 before Circuit Judge Shanta Owens.

Jurors heard from over a dozen witnesses and combed through over 500 pieces of evidence over about two days of deliberation.

The jury began deliberations Monday and delivered its verdict Wednesday afternoon.

Jefferson County deputy district attorneys Tiffany Ould, Brianna Anderson and John West prosecuted the case.

Jefferson was represented by Paul Rand and Hunter Carmichael of the Jefferson County Public Defender’s Office.

Sentencing is set for April. Since the case was not death penalty eligible, Jefferson will be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

North Precinct officers were dispatched just after 1 a.m. that Sunday to 608 Second Ave. North. Once on the scene, they found Goldthwaite had wrecked into the building there.

He was unresponsive from a gunshot wound and pronounced dead on the scene by Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service.

Prior to the shooting, Jefferson’s vehicle was seen on camera at the Shell gas station located at 800 Third Avenue West, stalking and later following behind Goldthwaite and his friends as they left the Shell, Ould said.

Minutes later, Goldthwaite was gunned down as he rode down Third Avenue causing his passenger to jump out of their moving vehicles before Goldthwaite crashed into a nearby building.

Nine shots rang out, several of which struck Goldthwaite’s driver side door.

Goldthwaite suffered one fatal blow to the heart.

Earlier – on May 21 – Jefferson approached Goldthwaite at a pool party and threatened to shoot him and his family if they appeared in court in an attempted murder and first-degree robbery case against Jefferson’s close friend, Jaboree Christian Watson.

Watson was charged with shooting Goldthwaite in December of 2019 when Goldthwaite tried to buy shoes from him over Facebook Marketplace.

As Goldthwaite and his friends left the pool party, Goldthwaite’s friend and another female bystander were shot.

Later that evening, Jefferson was recorded admitting to that shooting at the pool party, Ould said.

Shell casings from the pool party shooting matched the casings found at the murder scene and two other shootings that happened on May 23, 2022, and May 26, 2022.

GPS location data placed Jefferson’s cell phones at the Shell as well as at the May 23, 2022 shooting.

Watson later pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and was sentenced to 20 years in prison with three to serve. He remains in prison.

It was determined that Watson was at home on electronic monitoring when the murder occurred, Ould said.

Goldthwaite graduated in 2021 from Birmingham’s George W. Carver High School.

Jefferson in September pleaded guilty to unrelated charges of first-degree assault and discharging a firearm into an occupied building in the 2022 shooting that left a Birmingham teen with blindness in one eye and a brain injury.

In that case, Jefferson apologized to Christian Savage, now 17, and said he didn’t mean to hurt him. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison in Christian’s wounding.