BRONX - District Attorney Robert Johnson announced the murder conviction of a convict in the death of a drug dealer during a robbery at the deceased’s apartment.

A jury found Glenn Wilson, 46, guilty of murder in the first degree, robbery in the first degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees. 

When sentenced next month, Wilson faces a maximum sentence of life without parole for the shooting death of Jovanni Vivienes.

Vivienes, 42, whose record included several narcotics convictions, was murdered in his fifth floor apartment at 3363 Sedgwick Avenue on January 14, 2006.  Wilson shot Vivienes once in the head from the front slightly below the right eye as Vivienes knelt on the floor in front of him. 

The jury rejected Wilson’s claim that he went to the apartment to buy drugs and that the shooting was an act of self defense.  The district attorney’s theory was that Wilson went to the apartment with the intention of robbing Vivienes.  Although there were signs that the apartment had been ransacked, police recovered more than five grams of cocaine that had been left on a kitchen counter beneath a cabinet containing a scale that was used to weigh the illegal drugs.

The evidence weighed by the jury included a videotape from the building’s security camera which showed Wilson being greeted in the vestibule by Vivienes who escorted Wilson to his apartment.  Approximately a half an hour later, Wilson is seen on the tape leaving the building wearing a hood and the white gloves while dragging two safes through the door.