8 alleged metro Atlanta gang members convicted in teen’s execution-style murder

Whereas Kent was in custody, he discovered that the 17-year-old had been questioned by police and got here to consider the teenager was “snitching,” Buchanan stated. Primarily based on that suspicion, a number of 135 Pirus gang members lured the teenager to an remoted location in Bartow County and killed him “execution-style,” two days after the Brookhaven taking pictures, in keeping with Buchanan. The gun Kent had discarded was used within the killing, prosecutors stated.

Throughout Kent’s trial, he was additionally accused of committing a drive-by taking pictures directed at a person standing within the entrance yard of his Cartersville residence, Buchanan stated. After the taking pictures, Kent threw his gun into Lake Allatoona. It was later recovered by the FBI and matched to the cartridge casings and a bullet discovered on the taking pictures scene.

After being discovered responsible by a jury on a number of costs, Kent was sentenced Aug. 24 to 40 years in jail, the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace stated.

Along with Davis and Kent, a number of different alleged members of the 135 Pirus gang obtained important jail sentences.

Christopher Nwanjoku, 30, a suspected chief of the 135 Pirus gang in Lawrenceville, and Maurice Kent’s twin brother Michael Kent had been every sentenced to not less than 20 years in jail after pleading responsible to conspiracy costs.

Jamel Dupree Hughes, 28, of Atlanta, and Cedric Sams Jr., 30, of Cartersville, every pleaded responsible to homicide in the help of racketeering, amongst different costs, and had been sentenced to not less than 20 years in jail.

Jennifer Foutz, 30, of Acworth, and DaSean Dorsey, 26, of Decatur, each pleaded responsible to aiding and abetting a homicide in the help of racketeering. They every obtained jail sentences of not less than a decade.

“The members of the one hundred and thirty fifth Avenue Pirus gang had been prepared to violently assault and kill folks for the smallest perceived signal of disrespect,” FBI Atlanta spokeswoman Keri Farley stated.

“The ache and worry these defendants brought about via their mindless violence has eternally altered the lives of the victims, the victims’ households, and the witnesses courageous sufficient to help investigators,” Buchanan stated. “At-risk teenagers stay susceptible to the lure of gang tradition and require our collective diligence to keep away from this harmful path.”