Nicholas Caban and Jacob Firestone have been convicted of second-degree murder in the murder of Matthew Ascaridis, a 45-year-old Highland Park man who was beaten to death in a beach fight along the Lake Michigan shoreline in 2022. The men claimed they acted in self-defense, but prosecutors said Ascarididis suffered over three dozen injuries including a fractured vertebra. The verdict was read at about 7:30 p.m.