An Allen Superior Court jury didn't need a witness, DNA or fingerprints to place Anthony A. Parish behind the .38-caliber revolver that gunned down Antoine J. Woods as he sat in his car outside the Dove Shack Bar on Lumbard Street early in the morning of Aug. 25, 2008.

The necklace seen on Parish in the following days - the same one stolen from Woods' bullet-riddled body and later recovered by Fort Wayne Police at Parish's home - was probably enough to convict the 20-year-old of murder Wednesday night.

The ballistics testing that tied Parish's gun to the bullets recovered from in Woods' car and in his body were probably enough; and the phone records that put Parish around the Dove Shack at the time of shooting were probably enough, as well.

A jury deliberated six hours before returning four guilty verdicts for murder, felony murder, robbery and handgun without a license.

“We're happy with the verdict, and we put A.P. where he deserves to be,” Prosecutor Steve Godfrey said after the verdicts came down. “He can die in prison.”

Before Wednesday, Parish already had accumulated 91 1/2 years on two attempted-murder convictions and a criminal-recklessness conviction.

Godfrey said he will ask Allen Superior Court Judge Fran Gull for the maximum sentence, which in a murder case would be 65 years, according to Indiana Code, at Parish's sentencing next month. He'll then ask for the sentence to run in addition to his already-hefty tally so Parish “will never see the light of day,” Godfrey said.

Woods was killed at some point between 11 p.m. Aug. 24, when he was drinking at the Dove Shack and 1 a.m. Aug. 25, when police were called to the scene. Slouched inside his Chevrolet Corsica, Woods was dead from a close-range gunshot wound to his abdomen and another shot to the cheek.

The two-day murder trial this week was spent playing “he said, she said” concerning who shot the 30-year-old city man, with no forensic evidence to lead police anywhere.

The last day's testimony came from a cell phone company representative, who had records of Anthony Parish's cell phone usage that night. Those showed several calls made and received on Parish's phone around the time of the killing.

The calls bounced off a cell phone tower within a five-mile radius, inside which the Dove Shack lies. Outside that circumference, the representative said, was Parish's home, meaning a call to or from Parish's phone from inside Parish's home would have bounced off another tower and not the one that records those calls. This information contradicted an alibi that Parish was at home at the time.

Those records were addressed in testimony by Mack E. Porter, a friend of Parish who himself has a pending murder trial and appeared in court Wednesday with shackled feet and hands. Portertold jurors he made those calls near the Dove Shack because he was using Parish's phone.

Testimony also came via video by firearms examiner Michelle Fletcher of the Indiana State Police, who told the jury she matched the .38-caliber revolver recovered by Fort Wayne Police during Parish's traffic stop with bullets recovered inside Woods' car and inside Woods' body.

One woman, a friend of Woods' for 15 years, told the court she happened to drive by Parish a week after her friend was killed, only to see Parish wearing Woods' necklace. The woman said she immediately called police.

Attorney John Bohdan's defense contained testimony from Parish's mother, grandmother and girlfriend, who each said Parish was home at the time of the shooting had no idea what day that was.

Bohdan argued in his closing statement that the inconsistencies of his three alibi witnesses spoke not of their unbelievability, but instead their believability, saying he'd be suspicious if a witness came in with spot-on memories 14 months after the fact. Godfrey said what sealed the case for the state was the evidence that backed up what Rico Parrish told the court - that Parish bragged about committing a petty murder and had the stolen chain to prove it. When police found Woods' chain in Parish's home and the murder weapon in his glove compartment, then matched the gun with the bullets, Godfrey said it was just too much for a jury not to believe.