District Attorney Bubba Bramlett announced Tuesday that 22-year-old Deondric Green, of Canton, was sentenced to serve the next forty years in prison by Circuit Court Judge Dewey Arthur.
Green pled guilty to two counts of second-degree murder for the 2020 deaths of Robert Luckett, Jr, and Dekarrie Johnson.
On October 21, 2020, Green and his then-girlfriend drove to the Mcdonald’s located on Highway 22 in Canton. When they arrived, he saw a car with an individual he associated with a prior altercation and opened fire on the car.
All four occupants of the car were hit with two ultimately passing away from their injuries.
A joint investigation between the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and the Canton Police Department uncovered that Green had been shot several months prior, and he was shooting the car at Mcdonald’s in an attempt to get revenge.
The forty-year sentence that Green was ordered to serve will be served day-for-day without the possibility of early release or parole.
Judge Dewey Arthur stated,
“This man has essentially been given a life sentence. Mcdonald’s parking lots and gas stations are not shooting galleries. We have got to quit killing each other. The streets of the City of Canton are not going to be used for killing sprees.”
District Attorney Bubba Bramlett stated, “Our thoughts are with the survivors and families of the deceased victims of this senseless violence. Retaliation leads to death and destruction for all involved, and oftentimes, innocent bystanders as well. While today’s sentencing brings closure to this case, please know this: we are working tirelessly with law enforcement-state and federal-to bring the bad actors responsible for the violence in our communities to the courtroom, where they will be held accountable.
“If these criminals are associated with a group with bad intentions, our law enforcement agencies are working diligently to determine who the leadership and members of those groups are, who their rivals are, and we will vigorously prosecute all criminal acts attributable to them. We want the good citizens living in high-crime areas to live with hope, not fear. We are making tremendous strides in these areas, and several violent criminals will be sentenced to prison in the coming weeks. Please contact law enforcement, even if you have to do so anonymously, with any information regarding criminal activity in your area, and let’s get these criminals out of our neighborhoods and into the courtroom.”
