A Mobile jury found Anthony Orr guilty in the 2020 Mardi Gras shooting which killed a man and left his ex-wife permanently paralyzed.

The shooting occurred just before the Infant Mystics parade on Feb. 24, 2020, near the intersection of Warren and St. Anthony streets.

Mobile police said at the time Orr made public threats against the two victims and obtained a gun the day prior to the shooting.

According to Battiste, an altercation ensued at the beginning of the parade route where Orr fatally shot the male and female victims — identified as 51-year-old Eldred Hall and Orr’s ex-wife, Valerie Reed Orr, who was 54 at the time — in the street.

Orr’s divorce from Valerie Reed Orr was finalized in September 2019, according to court records.

In the divorce complaint, Orr’s ex-wife alleged Orr had been “verbally, emotionally and physically abusive” toward her and made several threats to kill her, a March 2019 court fling states. She had obtained a protection from abuse order against Orr a year before that filing, records show.

Orr was arrested on a domestic-violence-harassment charge on Feb. 18 of this year, according to court records, and was released on bond Feb. 21 — three days before the shooting.

That arrest stemmed from a complaint his ex-wife filed in March 2019 stating that in October of 2018 Orr punched and kicked her in the face, according to court records.

In August 2019, Orr pleaded guilty to resisting arrest after his ex-wife called Mobile County deputies in March 2019 saying Orr was trying to break into her house. Deputies found Orr near her house and repeatedly used a taser on him when he refused to comply with their commands, records state.

Orr’s ex-wife told the deputies she was afraid of what Orr would do if he had entered the house “because of their domestic violence problems over the years,” that arrest report stated.

Orr was found guilty of murder, attempted murder, attempted assault and shooting into an occupied vehicle. He is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 5.