DORCHESTER MAN GUILTY OF MURDER ONE IN COOKOUT SLAYING April 6, 2009 After four full days of deliberations, a Suffolk Superior Court jury found a Dorchester man guilty of first-degree murder for shooting 22-year-old Michael Wiggins to death as friends and relatives gathered for a barbecue near Arbutus and Ashton streets, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced. CORNELIUS BROWN (D.O.B. 6/25/74) will face the mandatory sentence for that offense, a life term without the possibility of parole, when he is sentenced at 9:30 tomorrow morning in courtroom 806. Assistant District Attorney Cory Flashner introduced evidence and testimony showing that, on the evening of July 4, 2007, Wiggins exited his car near a fight between his uncle and another man who was friendly with Brown. Simultaneously, Brown approached that fight with a revolver. Evidence showed that Brown fired the gun, striking Wiggins in the torso and inflicting a wound that caused his death six days later. In the course of their deliberations, jurors asked Judge Thomas Connolly for a larger deliberating room so they could stage a reenactment of the incident; Connolly granted that request. Brown was represented by attorney Robert Galibois, II. Return to the Press Releases page.