Attorney General Jim Hood issued the following statement.
A
25-year-old man will spend 30 years in prison for the 2013 shooting of
Jessica Keys and Kamron Conner at a North State Street gas station in
Jackson, announced Attorney
General Jim Hood.
Deangelo Morment, of Jackson, was sentenced Wednesday
by Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Jeff Weill on two counts of
aggravated assault following a July 17 conviction by a
Hinds County trial jury. Judge Weill sentenced Morment to 20 years in
the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections with five years
suspended and 15 years to serve on each count. The sentences will run
consecutively for a total of 30 years to serve.
Morment was placed on five years of probation upon his release.
On
July 13, 2013, Morment and two other men ambushed Conner at the Gas
Stop gas station in apparent retaliation, shot him, and fled the scene.
Surveillance video showed Conner
being shot multiple times and Keys being caught in the cross fire. Both
victims survived.
The
case of one suspect has been dismissed while the case against Frederick
J. Smith, Jr. is still pending. Jackson Police Department investigated
this case and arrested the
three men, but the Hinds County District Attorney’s office recused
itself from prosecuting.
“Violence
does not belong in our communities. Now, there is one less violent
criminal off our streets,” said General Hood. “This case was a team
effort, and I thank those involved
for seeing it through to justice being served.”
This
case was also investigated by AG Investigator Perry Tate and was
prosecuted by Special Assistant Attorney General Marvin Sanders, both
with the AG’s Public Integrity Division.
9 comments:
Hold On! If the perp shot these people in retaliation, would that not indicate premeditated murder. WTF is up with the charge?
Sorry; I thought the victims were dead. But why not attempted murder?
Unless it has changed recently Mississippi doesn't have an "attempted murder" charge. I know that there was a move in the legislature to enact the charge.
Somebody tell Jimmy that his statement “Violence does not belong in our communities. Now, there is one less violent criminal off our streets,” should be "there is one MORE violent criminal off our streets" or "there is one less violent criminal ON our streets."
Thank you, 5:54, for pointing out the piss-poor grammar. He doesn’t understand basic English but he’s ready to be guvnah! I guess having a mullet, a dog and a truck count for something. Hail yeah!
There is no attempted murder statute in Mississippi.
Sorry, but I do believe the legislature passed 'attempted murder' bill three years ago. Every backwards, we were one of two states that had no such definition/statute.
http://www.wlbt.com/story/21859322/miss-lawmakers-pass-attempted-murder-law
General Hood? Wouldn't it be Attorney General Hood? Maybe I'm ill informed, but I've never heard an AG referred to as simply General.
Seriously, does he regularly refer to himself as General Hood? That sounds like a supervillain from a comic book.
Maybe he's planning to steal a nuclear warhead and hold New York City hostage if he doesn't win the governor's race.
@ 9:11 I have heard appellate judges call him that.
There was that 'female' Surgeon General who preferred to be called General.
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