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A Covington County jury returned two verdicts Friday in the 2022 murder of Treyvous Cobbins.

One of the co-defendants, Teddy Donnell Cozart, 21, of Andalusia was found guilty of murder.

The second co-defendant, Alyssa Jewel Stewart, 20, also of Andalusia was found not guilty.

A total of five suspects were arrested in the murder of Cobbins, 22, of Evergreen. Andalusia police officers responded to reports of gunfire at the Foxwood Village Apartments on Oct. 19, 2022 and found Cobbins in his vehicle suffering from a gunshot wound. Cobbins was transported to Andalusia Health and later taken by helicopter to a Florida trauma center where he died the next day. Cobbins was scheduled to be a witness in a Conecuh County murder trial.

The state’s case against Stewart was that she played a role in luring Cobbins to Foxwood Apart, where a group waited to ambush him.

According to Stewart’s attorney, A. Riley Powell IV, the evidence presented did not support the charge that his client lured the victim to the apartment complex where she resided.

“While she was collaterally connected to the co-defendant, there was no evidence that she was a participant in the crime,” Powell said. “She and the victim were co-workers at Wendy’s and the two had discussed him dropping something off at her apartment.”

Riley said Stewart turned over her cell phone to police and that no communication with those in the car was found. He added that video footage shows the suspects’ vehicle waiting outside Wendy’s for Cobbins to get off work, then following him to McDonald’s and then to a Chevron station. “They were parked on the hill by Dean’s Cake House and it appeared they were going to shoot him (at Chevron), but decided there were too many people and returned to their car. They then followed him to the apartment complex,” Riley said.

Stewart served 15 months in jail under Alabama’s Aniah’s Law that allows prosecutors to request violent offenders be held without bail.

“I am very proud of the jury in determining that there was a lack of evidence and coming back with a not guilty verdict. The jury was smart enough to not be swayed by emotion. Unfortunately, my client spent 15 months in jail waiting for her day in court,” Riley said.

Three other defendants were arrested for roles in the shooting: Derrick Demetrius Thomas Jr., 21; Le’Morion Lorenzo Fantroy, 21; and Siyonesty Marchelle Gill, 20, all of Evergreen.

Gill pled guilty to one count of murder in 2023 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Thomas and Fantroy await trial.

Riley serves with the Powell Law Firm, P.C., which has operated in Andalusia since 1907.

Comment from the District Attorney’s Office was not available as of press time Tuesday, Oct. 29, but the Star-News will update the online version of this story if received.