A Lancaster County jury once again convicted a former Manor Township man yesterday of shooting a man to death and injuring two others inside a crowded Lancaster city bar in 2014 following a five-day trial last week.

The jury found Lamar Douglas Clark, formerly of the 100 block of Millersville Road, guilty of voluntary manslaughter, two counts of aggravated assault and 11 counts of recklessly endangering another person.

Judge Merill Spahn, who presided over last week’s trial, is scheduled to sentence Clark following a 90-day pre-sentence investigation. Clark remains incarcerated without bail as he awaits his sentencing.

A jury had previously convicted the 39-year-old Clark of third-degree murder in 2016 for shooting and killing 54-year-old Barry Diffenderfer at a bar in the 500 block of East Chestnut Street the night of Nov. 7, 2014. Two other people were also shot by Clark during the encounter but survived.

Though Clark had already served 11 years of a 38-and-a-half to 87-year sentence for that offense, the Pennsylvania Superior Court granted Clark a new trial last year after finding his attorney in the 2016 trial was ineffective.

Assistant District Attorney Mark Fetterman, who prosecuted the case alongside Assistant District Attorney Daniel Lingousky, told the jury in his opening argument that Clark fired the gun five times into the crowded bar, turning “a place of joy and laughter” into “a scene of horror and death.”

An attorney representing Clark claimed he fired a single shot in self-defense at a man who ambushed him with the intent to injure or kill him, striking the man in the elbow. It was only after another man grabbed Clark’s arm and began fighting for the weapon that the other four shots went off, hitting bystanders including Diffenderfer.

But, Fetterman told the jury, none of the eyewitnesses to the shooting who testified on the Commonwealth’s behalf had seen or heard a commotion before Clark opened fire.

Fetterman asked each of the eight eyewitnesses who testified on the Commonwealth’s behalf a series of questions as to whether they saw a disturbance, fight or gun displayed before Clark opened fire. None testified that they had.

At one point during the trial Clark’s own sister took the stand and, fighting through tears, testified that he had produced the weapon on his own and fired each of the shots. Fetterman noted that Clark’s sister, who normally would have incentive to protect her brother, told the truth as to what she saw when she was closest to him in the bar in “the truest, realest, most authentic moment in the entire trial.”

In his closing argument Fetterman urged the jury to reject “alternate theories” and instead consider how each of the eyewitnesses’ testimonies corroborated one another and all pointed back to Clark.

“He’s the one who pulled that trigger once, twice, three times, four times, five times,” Fetterman told the jury.

Throughout the trial the Commonwealth produced diagrams displaying Clark’s position inside the bar prior to the shooting, maps which demonstrated Clark’s escape route and photographs depicting the bloody aftermath of the shooting. The Commonwealth also called more than a dozen different witnesses including police officers who responded to the shooting, forensic experts who analyzed evidence and eight different eyewitnesses who were inside the bar when Clark opened fire, including his own sister.

Two of the eyewitnesses who testified on the Commonwealth’s behalf were themselves struck and injured by gunfire. Both identified Clark as the man who shot them and killed Diffenderfer.

First responders who arrived at the scene found Diffenderfer bleeding to death on the bar floor and quickly pronounced him dead.

Two city police detectives responding to the shooting spotted an excited Clark outside a convenience store about two blocks from the scene and arrested him. A child handed those detectives a revolver containing five spent bullet casings he said Clark had handed to him moments before police arrived.

Forensic evidence the Commonwealth provided during the trial also showed that Clark was inside the bar and fired the gun.

The jury returned a guilty verdict after about six hours of deliberation spanning two days.

Lancaster City Bureau of Police Det. Stanley Roache filed the charges.