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An Orcutt man accused of fatally shooting a father of two after several bar fights inside and outside Elmer’s bar in March was found guilty of first-degree murder and other charges Friday afternoon in Santa Barbara County Superior Court.

Jonathan Highley, 37, of Old Town Orcutt also was found guilty of assault with a firearm.

Additionally, the panel of eight men and four women ruled the enhancements related to firearms use were true after spending a day in deliberations..

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The victim&#;s family reacted with emotion as a court clerk read the verdicts in Judge Gustavo Lavayen&#;s Santa Maria courtroom.

In the early hours of March 4, , Highley shot Anthony “Tony” San Juan, 43, of Santa Maria, delivering a single gunshot wound to his head in the parking lot behind the Old Town Orcutt bar.

Witnesses testified that Highley had sucker punched two men inside the bar before getting into a fight in the parking lot with a third man. However, San Juan was not i