Wichita ? After deliberating more than two days, jurors on Friday found quadruple homicide defendant Earl Bell innocent of all charges.

Bell, 22, had pleaded innocent to premeditated first-degree murder, filed under a Kansas law concerning aiding and abetting. A co-defendant, Cornelius Oliver, 19, was convicted in December of four counts of murder.

Family members of the victims immediately left the courtroom after the verdict was read in Sedgwick County District Court.

Dist. Atty. Nola Foulston said afterward that there was enough evidence to show Bell helped Oliver with the shootings, but the jury didn’t see it that way.

Deliberations began Wed-nesday after 10 days of testimony in the Dec. 6, 2000, killings of four youths at a house in Wichita.

In closing arguments, defense attorney Richard Ney said Bell was riveted in place by fear during most of the time a psychotic Oliver was firing the nine shots, killing his girlfriend and three others.

Ney pointed to medical records that showed Oliver, Bell’s friend, had reported hearing voices before and after the crime, and had been under treatment for a violent mental condition before the killings.

But prosecutor Mark Bennett told the jury that claim was ludicrous. He said Bell could not have been as scared of Oliver as the defense claimed because the morning after the crime, he let Oliver and another woman baby-sit his children.

Bell claimed he didn’t know Oliver was going to shoot the two women and two men in an apparent domestic dispute with Oliver’s girlfriend, Raeshawnda Wheaton.

Wheaton, 18, was shot along with her roommate, Odessa Ford, 17; Ford’s cousin, Quincy Williams, 17; and Jermaine Levy, 19.

While jurors convicted Oliver of four counts of murder, they spared his life by declining to find him guilty of capital murder.

The jury deliberated about 16 hours before convicting Oliver of felony murder for the deaths of Wheaton and Ford and first-degree murder for the deaths of Williams and Levy. Oliver has not been sentenced.