Desmond Lavonta Brown has been sentenced to life without parole in Cherokee County, Alabama after being convicted of the murder of two Rome sisters three years ago.
Brown was found guilty of capital murder on Nov. 21 and was sentenced on Monday.
Brown had faced the death penalty.
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Details have been released regarding the double murder of Vanita Nicole Richardson and Truvenia Campbell that occurred earlier this year. According to GBI Special Agent Ghee Wilson, the half-sisters were allegedly shot and killed because of a missing wallet.
In a probable cause hearing in front of Floyd County Superior Court Judge Jack Niedrach, Wilson stated that the case started at a birthday party for Desmond Brown at his home on Cave Spring Street on the 12 of May.
According to testimony Brown was partying with several people including Richardson, Campbell, Devin Watts and Christopher Pullen.
Reports said that after Campbell and Richardson left the party, Brown discovered that his wallet was missing, and assumed that the sisters must have stole it.
Brown, Watts and Pullen proceeded to get into Brown’s Volkswagen Phaeton and set out to get his wallet back. The men went and picked up the sisters before going for a ride. Wilson said that Brown was the driver with Pullen riding in the passenger seat and with Watts in the back seat along side Campbell and Richardson.
Authorities used cellphone records to show that the vehicle traveled to Alabama along backroads from Rome and pack. At one point during the drive Brown pulled over to question the women about the missing wallet. After getting back in and driving more Brown pulled over again and ordered them out, this time by gunpoint. This is where things went bad and Campbell began to fight back.
Wilson said that Brown shot Campbell multiple times before turning the gun on Richardson and shooting her twice. Their bodies were loaded in the truck of the car. The suspects began to drive again, making multiple stops…
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