PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – A man has been found guilty of first-degree murder, and several other charges, in connection with a shooting that happened in 2022.
According to a release from the Portsmouth Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office, at the conclusion of a two-day jury trial on Nov. 22, Jerry Vann Pork Jr. was found guilty of first-degree murder, attempt to commit malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a murder and use of a firearm in attempted malicious wounding.
All of these charges are in connection to the fatal shooting of 28-year-old Bernard Clack and the wounding of another man.
The evidence presented by the Commonwealth showed that just after midnight on Aug. 2, 2022, Mr. Clack drove to a convenience store located in the 3000 block of Turnpike Road, along with two other men who were in the car with him. They made a purchase and left the store. Jerry Pork Jr. was also in that convenience store. No altercation took place in the store.
The CA’s office said that once Clack reached the intersection of Portsmouth Boulevard and Deep Creek Boulevard, Pork pulled up beside Clack’s vehicle and began firing multiple gunshots into the vehicle. He then fled the scene.
Clack sustained a fatal gunshot wound to the back of the head and another man in the car was wounded. The third man drove the car to the hospital where Clack was pronounced deceased.
Jerry Pork Jr. is scheduled to be sentenced in this case on Jan. 29, 2025 at 9 a.m.
This verdict comes just over three years after Pork pleaded guilty in the case of a shooting that occurred in Suffolk in 2020.