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ROCHESTER, NEW YORK - A New York woman who set the wrong house on fire in retaliation for an alleged attack on her dad, killing a 5-year-old boy who was asleep inside, was found guilty Thursday of murder and arson.
It took Monroe County jurors just 30 minutes — 15 on Wednesday and 15 on Thursday — to convict Taquida Hendrix, 31, of second-degree murder and first-degree arson for the July 2024 house fire in Rochester that took Malakai Stovall's life, according to local NBC affiliate WHEC.
"It does make me feel a little bit better than I thought it would," Malakai's mother, Brianna Akers, told WHEC. "At least be able to hear and see the same thing I did and that is guilty of murder and arson and everything she was charged of."
Hendrix reportedly showed no emotion as the verdict was read Thursday following the brief deliberation by jurors, per WHEC. Her own sister, Tiakayla Hendrix, 21, testified against the woman during her trial last week after accepting a plea deal for her involvement, which included riding with Taquida Hendrix to Malakai's home. A third defendant, Roy Chambers, was with the siblings and wanted to help them get revenge for an alleged attack on the Hendrixes' father earlier in the day, prosecutors said.
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