FLINT, Mich. — A Michigan man convicted of fatally shooting a
9-year-old boy who witnessed him kill two other men at an apartment in
Flint has been sentenced to life in prison.
Genesee County Circuit
Judge Archie Hayman issued the sentence Monday to Deonte I. Gray.
First-degree murder carries an automatic penalty of life behind bars
without possibility of parole.
A jury in January convicted Gray in
the July 15, 2013, shootings of 9-year-old Trashawn Macklin,
25-year-old James R. Allen Jr. and 22-year-old Akeem Easterling.
Standing
beside Trashawn’s crying mother, Freeman Elementary School teacher
Laura Garrison told the judge her student was loved by all who knew him.
Authorities say the killings began with a dispute between Gray and Easterling.
Prosecutors earlier dropped a fourth murder charge against Gray after a witness disappeared.
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