Judge sentences cab driver's killer to life without parole - Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Mitchell was found guilty of malice murder, felony murder and using a firearm to commit a felony in the September 2012 shooting death of cab driver Byron Brown. comYasmeen Bilal addresses the court during sentencing proceedings for Sandy Mitchell Tuesday in Superior Court. Mitchell was found guilty of malice murder, felony murder and using a firearm to commit a felony in the September 2012 shooting death of Bilal's husband, cab driver Byron Brown. comPaula Mitchell, Sandy Mitchell's mother, addresses Byron Brown's famiy during sentencing proceedings for her son Tuesday in Superior Court. Sandy Mitchell was found guilty of malice murder, felony murder and using a firearm to commit a felony in the September 2012 shooting death of cab driver Byron Brown. 15 It was a tale of two families Tuesday during the sentencing of Sandy Mitchell, 24, convicted of murder in the 2012 “execution-style” shooting of Yellow Cab driver Byron Keith Brown. Brown’s family asked Judge Art Smith III to give Mitchell the harshest penalty possible — life without parole. Mitchell’s family pleaded for mercy, asking Smith to sentence Mitchell to life with the possibility of parole, the judge’s only other option. Smith, lamenting the tragic circumstances that left one husband and father dead and another headed to prison, said the “senseless, cold-blooded murder” called for the more stringent penalty, and sentenced Mitchell to life without parole. Source: www.ledger-enquirer.com
