Guilty verdict in quadruple murder at Metairie apartment complex

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A Jefferson Parish jury has voted to convict a 23-year-old Metairie man in a bloody 2017 quadruple murder at an apartment complex in Metairie.

After two hours and 45 minutes of deliberation, jurors voted 11-1 to find Armande Tart guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder.

Tart was convicted in the slayings of 61-year-old Rosemary Charles; Charles' boyfriend, 56-year-old John Henry; and 40-year-old Kyle Turner inside Charles' apartment in Metairie in March 2017. 

Tart was also found guilty of stabbing and strangling 56-year-old Harold Frisard, who lived in the same Pasadena Avenue complex.

Prosecutors say Tart committed the killings as part of a drug-related robbery.

He now faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 12.