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Detroit man imprisoned up to 40 years in French artist's slaying
Source: Reuters
US | Fri Jun 12, 2015 11:26am EDT
Detroit man imprisoned up to 40 years in French artist's slaying
A judge on Friday sentenced a man to up to 40 years in prison in the killing of a 23-year-old French street artist in Detroit, prosecutors said.
Jasin Curtis, 18, of Detroit, had pleaded guilty in May to second degree murder and was sentenced to 25 to 40 years in prison in the killing of Bilal Berreni, who was found shot dead in 2013 in a vacant high-rise building near downtown Detroit.
Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Morrow also sentenced Curtis to two years on a firearms conviction to be served consecutively to the murder sentence, prosecutors said. Both sentences were recommendations from a plea agreement.
Curtis and two other men were charged with murder, armed robbery and firearms violations in Berreni's death, a Paris native who was known by the street moniker "Zoo Project."
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Detroit man imprisoned up to 40 years in French artist's slaying
A judge on Friday sentenced a man to up to 40 years in prison in the killing of a 23-year-old French street artist in Detroit, prosecutors said.
Jasin Curtis, 18, of Detroit, had pleaded guilty in May to second degree murder and was sentenced to 25 to 40 years in prison in the killing of Bilal Berreni, who was found shot dead in 2013 in a vacant high-rise building near downtown Detroit.
Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Morrow also sentenced Curtis to two years on a firearms conviction to be served consecutively to the murder sentence, prosecutors said. Both sentences were recommendations from a plea agreement.
Curtis and two other men were charged with murder, armed robbery and firearms violations in Berreni's death, a Paris native who was known by the street moniker "Zoo Project."
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/12/us-usa-detroit-murder-artist-idUSKBN0OS1S120150612
Earlier DU thread: young anti-capitalist French street artist murdered in Detroit