A St. Clair County jury found Jennifer Goodall guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting of Chase Hoyt.

Monday's verdict is the jury's finding on the murder count. The sentence is still ahead. WGRT is the outlet that described the rifle and the recordings. The Times Herald reported a unanimous verdict after several hours and a third count ClickOnDetroit did not print the same way. Her age is 41 in some of the verdict copy and 40 in other copy, including WGRT's own trial story from four days earlier.

WGRT and the Times Herald reported that a St. Clair County jury on Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, found Jennifer Goodall guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of Chase Hoyt. The Times Herald reported the verdict was unanimous and followed several hours of deliberation. It identified her as 41 and Hoyt as 23, and it placed the killing at their Port Huron home on Sept. 3, 2025. WGRT also reported she is 41. ClickOnDetroit's Oct. 13 story calls her a 41-year-old in its opening sentence, then calls her Jennifer Lynn Goodall, 40, in the photograph caption and again in the sentence that lists the convictions. WGRT's Oct. 9 account of the trial opening called her 40. The verdict coverage does not settle on one age.

The third count is also not one caption. The Times Herald reported that, with the murder count, she was found guilty of felony firearm use and possession of an unregistered firearm. ClickOnDetroit reported the convictions as first-degree murder, felony firearm, and purchasing a pistol without a license. That third caption is the one WGRT used when she was arraigned in September 2025: open murder, felony firearm, and buying a pistol without a license. ClickOnDetroit's Sept. 5, 2025 story used the same three charging captions. A jury's guilty finding replaces the open-murder charging caption with first-degree murder. It does not, by itself, explain why two outlets now name the remaining gun count differently.

The night of the shooting is told in two nearby versions by the same station. ClickOnDetroit reported in September 2025 that Port Huron police went to the 1400 block of 10th Avenue at 11:21 p.m. on Sept. 3. Its verdict story said officers were sent to the area of 10th Avenue and Washington Avenue around 11:20 p.m. Both stories say officers found Hoyt with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, that he was taken to a hospital and died, and that Goodall was arrested at the house. ClickOnDetroit reported an 11-year-old child was inside and was not hurt. WGRT's charging story reported the same. The child is not named here. WGRT reported on Oct. 9 that jurors had already heard both sides: prosecutors said she shot Hoyt after a year of jealous anger, and said recordings and a neighbor's testimony would show she had threatened to kill him. The station reported her attorney admitted she fired and argued self-defense.

WGRT's verdict story is the one that says what became of that defense. The station reported the jury rejected the self-defense claim. It reported that photographs from the officers' body cameras showed the rifle she said Hoyt had been holding. The rifle, the station reported, was stored in a closet and had not been removed from its case. The station reported the recordings include threats she directed at him. The Times Herald's opening and ClickOnDetroit's verdict story do not print that rifle detail. WGRT reported she will be sentenced at 1:35 p.m. Nov. 16 and faces up to life in prison. ClickOnDetroit reported the same clock time, at the 31st Circuit Court in Port Huron. Goodall has been convicted and has not been sentenced, and she may appeal. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.