The man who fatally shot the father of a Marist College student while he was visiting his son for family weekend last fall was convicted of murder on Friday.

Roy Johnson, 35, was found guilty of killing Paul Kutz, 53, in the Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Poughkeepsie in October, Chief Assistant District Attorney Matthew Weishaupt told The Poughkeepsie Journal.

Kutz, an accountant from Long Island, had been staying at the hotel while visiting his son during the university’s annual parents’ weekend. 

The father of three was getting a coffee in the hotel lobby before he checked out when a bullet struck him in the right side of his chest.

The jury deliberated for a day and a half before convicting Johnson of second-degree murder, three counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and a count each of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and first-degree reckless endangerment.

According to an indictment, around 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 2 Johnson entered the hotel clad in an army green jacket with a balaclava covering his face and started “yelling and pacing in the lobby, near the barista bar.”

He tried to get behind the hotel’s front desk but was stopped by a clerk. He then pulled out a modified Glock handgun and fired off as many as 30 rounds, including 22 when he stepped outside the hotel, according to the indictment.

Kutz was struck and died at the scene moments later. 

Johnson then put down the weapon, removed his mask and army jacket in the parking lot before re-entering the hotel, where he was arrested.

Kutz and Johnson had never met before, police said.

Co-defendant Devin Taylor, who was at the hotel with Johnson, was also arrested and charged with a number of gun charges, including possessing a fully automatic rifle with no serial number that had been stored in a guitar case.

At the time of the shooting, Johnson was facing separate murder and robbery charges in connection with the August 2022 shooting death of Darren J. Villani in the city of Poughkeepsie.

Johnson faces up to 40 years in state prison, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal. He is being held without bail in Dutchess County Jail pending his sentencing, which has been scheduled for June 26.

His attorney told the newspaper he plans to appeal the verdict.