BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ Sanchez Brumfield has been formally sentenced to death for his role in the 2006 fatal shooting of a 21-year-old man behind a Baton Rouge Olive Garden restaurant.
If executed, one of his attorneys says the 24-year-old Brumfield would be the first “non-shooter” put to death in Louisiana in more than four decades.
Brumfield’s alleged accomplice, 30-year-old Tracy Young, is scheduled to stand trial Jan. 12. Prosecutor Aaron Brooks said the state also is seeking the death penalty against Young, the alleged triggerman.
Aaron Arnold was killed and 28-year-old Dionne Grayson was wounded in the Sept. 8, 2006 shooting.
The victims were shot in the parking lot behind the restaurant while Arnold was helping Grayson put gas in her car.
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