MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A man has been sentenced to 58 years in prison after being convicted of fatally shooting two men at a North Memphis motorcycle club.
Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich says 38-year-old Robert Taylor was sentenced Wednesday.
Memphis police responded April 25, 2014 to the Memphis Gentleman’s club, a club that’s popular with motorcyclists. There, 52-year-old Eric Whitaker and 26-year-old Jonathan Triplett had been shot to death.
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Taylor was charged with first-degree murder, but was convicted of the lesser charges of two counts of second-degree murder.
Taylor was given two consecutive sentences of 25 years for each of the second-degree murder convictions, and an additional eight years for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
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