MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - Two people have been sentenced to life in prison for the 2014 fatal shooting of a man in West Virginia.
The Journal of Martinsburg reports a judge sentenced 36-year-old Tulsa Johnson of Martinsburg and 20-year-old Vincent S. Smith, of Frederick, Maryland, Thursday to serve life without parole followed by one-to-five years in prison for their felony murder and conspiracy convictions, respectively.
Johnson and Smith were convicted in October 2015 of killing 33-year-old Michael Garcia in September 2014 after police say they set him up to do a drug deal. Garcia was found dead at a business park south of Martinsburg.
Berkeley County Prosecutor Pamela Games-Neely argued that Johnson and Smith really intended to rob Garcia, but ended up shooting him to death.
A jury acquitted Jucobe Johnson of accessory after the fact of murder.