MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors say a Tennessee man has been found guilty of receiving $1,000 for the contract killing of a Memphis resident.
The Shelby County district attorney’s office said a judge sentenced 21-year-old Raymon Muhammad to life in prison after his conviction Thursday of first-degree murder.
Muhammad shot 53-year-old John E. Jones from a passing car with an AK-47 rifle on in December 2015. Jones was on a house’s front porch when he was killed.
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Jones was believed to be a high-ranking member of the Memphis Mob street gang. But investigators found he was killed after an altercation with another man over a woman at a nightclub.
The man believed to have hired him, 37-year-old Derrick Matthews, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years.
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