SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2016 slaying and aggravated assaults during a family dispute in Georgia.
The Savannah Morning News reports that 38-year-old Karonta Morrell was also given an additional 70 years Wednesday night in the shooting death of Jonathan Lang. Testimony shows that 28-year-old Lang was shot by a .45-caliber handgun during a quarrel that spilled into the street.
Lang was identified as Morrell’s cousin.
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The weapon was never recovered.
Morrell was convicted on several counts of murder and aggravated assault on two others in the same shooting. They were merged into a single conviction for purposes of sentencing.
Morrell was arrested in 2016 after hiding under dirty clothes in the laundry room of his girlfriend’s house.
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