Man found guilty of double murder outside Smyrna restaurant

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Jurors found a Cobb County man guilty Friday of a double murder outside a Smyrna restaurant in 2013.

After just 30 minutes of deliberation, Isadore Barboza was convicted on 13 counts.

Prosecutors said Barboza killed a woman during an attempted robbery. Barboza's accomplice, Quondre Bentley, also died in the shooting.

Barboza’s attorney argued that witnesses the prosecution used against Barboza were lying.

He said the survivor of the shootout outside Docs restaurant, Exavious Brooks, pointed right at Barboza in the courtroom, identifying him as the shooter, but picked someone else out of a police lineup.

“You’re putting my client’s life in the hands of two people that I wouldn't let take care of my cats,” defense attorney Ken Croy told the jurors.

Prosecutors say Barboza was looking to rob someone, and when Brooks flashed some cashed, Barboza and an accomplice jumped Brooks and Ebone Driskell at her car.

It was all caught on video. Driskell opened fire in self-defense killing Bentley, but she died in the crossfire.

“He left her like she was a piece of garbage in the parking lot,” prosecutor Jesse Evans said in court. “No mother should have to sit in the back of a courtroom and have to listen to how their daughter died like that.”

Driskell's mother says the shooting left her devastated and left her grandson without a mother.

"I miss her a lot. I mean she was my rock, she was everything, she was my best friend. Everyone loved her in the community, her family, her friends, and especially her son," Larna Cox said.

Barboza was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

WSBTV