A Circuit Court jury on Wednesday delivered guilty verdicts for one of three men accused of choking and beating their friend before pushing his body into a North Suffolk lake last year.

Nathaniel Charles McCoy Jr., 23, was found guilty of first-degree murder, murder by mob, conspiracy and shoot, stab, cut or wound in commission of a felony.

He was one of three who killed Donta Williams of Portsmouth on Jan. 20, 2015. According to testimony, they choked him with a garrote and beat him with a hammer and their fists before pushing his body into Lake Mathews, near the Department of Defense complex.

The other two suspects, Kyle Lamar Purvis and Tremayne L. Johnson, have already taken plea deals. Johnson was a witness for the commonwealth in this week’s trial, which lasted three days.

The jury recommended a sentence of two life terms plus 15 years.

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