Northampton County District Attorney Stephen G. Baratta announces that Marquis Michael Watkins was convicted of Second-Degree Murder and related offenses on October 2, 2025, after a four-day jury trial.
In December of 2022, Bethlehem Police Department charged Watkins with Criminal Homicide and related lesser offenses in connection with the shooting death of Jani Bostic on December 10, 2022, in the 1200 block of Butztown Road in Bethlehem. Jani Bostic died of the gunshot wounds four days later in Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg.