After more than three hours of deliberation in Lycoming County Court on Tuesday, a jury found Dante J. Washington guilty of all charges in the shooting and robbing of cab driver Eugene Phillips on May 15, 2014.

Phillips suffered injury to his lungs, liver and stomach as a result of the shooting. He was hospitalized for two weeks and underwent four surgeries at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.

During closing statements, the opposing attorneys disagreed on what they thought was the most crucial piece of evidence in the case.

Because the shooter was described to have been wearing a pair of sunglasses and a hood, Phillips’ identification of Washington was limited from the nose down to the chin, Chief Public Defender William Miele said.

The best piece of evidence was the video surveillance footage of a man thought to be Washington walking across Market Street, Miele said.

“What can we make from the video?” he asked the jury. “We have multiple people saying that it’s not him … he’s pigeon toed.”

Eyewitnesses also said the man they saw hunched over a cab on Elmira Street was wearing dark, faded jeans and he was around 5 feet, 10 inches tall and around 170 pounds.

“But these jeans aren’t faded,” Miele said holding up the pair of black jeans. “Stand up Dante. He (Washington) is 6 foot, 2 inches tall and weighed about 195 pounds at the time … he’s a big guy.”

Focusing on what Assistant District Attorney Martin Wade said was the strongest evidence in the case, Miele spoke to the jury about Mark W. Perlin’s testimony on DNA data from last Thursday.

“Numbers are deceptive … you have to look at the background of the data,” Miele said.

The match for Washington on the right rear door handle of the cab that was over 45,000 times more probable than a coincidental match to an unrelated African-American person was a vast contrast to the nearly 12 zeros behind Phillips’ likelihood of touching the cab voucher, Miele said.

“Statistically, 45,000 is meaningless when talking about DNA,” Miele said.

But the assistant district attorney said Phillips identified Washington as his shooter, “not once, not twice, but three times.”

Wade urged the jury to consider many of the things brought up during testimony that connected Washington to the crime — including expert Mark W. Perlin’s DNA data testimony.

Miele wasn’t looking at the full statistic, Wade said.

“You don’t use a number beginning from the midway step,” he said. “You wouldn’t do it in high school … you really shouldn’t do it here.”

Washington also didn’t explain why his DNA would have been on the cab, Wade said.

The cellphone records also were an important point in Wade’s closing, as he pointed out there was much activity on Washington’s phone from 9 p.m. on May 14, 2014, until 5 a.m. of the next morning, followed by “dead silence” from 5:15 a.m. to 9:17 a.m. — the time the robbery and the flight from the robbery occurred.

Together with the gunshot residue found on Washington’s hoodie confiscated from his Franklin Street residence, Wade cited a call from Washington to the owner of the house that the shooter walked out of.

Washington was found guilty of attempted homicide, two counts of aggravated assault, four felony counts of various robbery charges, theft and receiving stolen property.

Two charges related to illegal possession of a firearm were severed for trial and added with the guilty verdict of the other charges.

He will be sentenced on Feb. 14.