The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
Source: Fox News
Posted: Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:32 PM
Three Shelby County TN Men Receive Life Sentences In Slaying Of 7 Year Old Girl
Authorities in Shelby County, Tenn., said defendants Carlos Stokes, 25; Jordon Clayton, 24; and Branden Brookins, 22, killed Kirtsen Williams, who was playing with a friend and a sibling in the front yard of a Memphis home in April 2015.
Prosecutors said Stokes wanted revenge for the death of his sister, Cateria Stokes, 15, who was killed earlier the same day in a drive-by shooting linked to an ongoing dispute over a 2014 drug deal gone wrong, the Commercial Appeal reported.
"They were hunting this girl, basically," Judge James Lammey said, according to the newspaper.
