SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A Hampden Superior Court jury in Springfield on Friday convicted a Holyoke man of first-degree murder in the July 2022 shooting death of a Holyoke woman, the Hampden District Attorney's office said.

Pablo Rivera-Ortiz, 42, was found guilty in the death of Desiree Rivera-Lopez, 36, according to District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni's office. Prosecutors said the jury returned the verdict on both theories of first-degree murder argued at trial: deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty.

Holyoke police officers were called to North Bridge Street in Holyoke at about 12:05 a.m. on July 23, 2022, after a report of a possible domestic fight, prosecutors said. Officers found Rivera-Lopez with a gunshot wound, and she died of her injuries, according to the district attorney's office.

Holyoke police and Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the district attorney's office investigated, and Rivera-Ortiz was later arrested and charged in her death, prosecutors said. He was arraigned in Holyoke District Court on July 25, 2022, and held without bail.

Rivera-Ortiz is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 13, according to the district attorney's office.

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