State v. Pona.

OPINION

Chief Justice WILLIAMS,

for the Court.

The defendant, Charles Pona (defendant), appeals his Superior Court conviction for first-degree murder, carrying a pistol without a license, and attempted arson. All charges stemmed from the senseless, random killing of Hector Feliciano in August 1999. For the reasons set forth herein, we affirm the judgment of the Superior Court.

I

Facts and Travel

Just before 5 p.m. on Saturday, August 28, 1999, seventeen-year-old Hector Felici-ano was working on a recently purchased used car in a vacant lot behind the tenement house he shared with his mother and…