TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for a drive-by shooting in Topeka that killed man who had been linked to an earlier fatal shooting.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Cortez Tyrell Timley must serve at least 25 years in prison before being eligible for parole.
He was convicted in March of first-degree murder in the June 2014 death of 26-year-old Jermel Ramond Robbins Sr.
Investigators say Robbins’ was suspected of being the third man involved in a May 2014 shooting that left Tiffany Davenport-Ray dead. His name surfaced during the trials of two other men, Thomas Earl Brown Jr. and Awnterio Lowery, in July 2016. Brown and Lowery were convicted in Davenport-Ray’s death.
Robbins was killed about three weeks after Davenport-Ray was killed.
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Information from: The Topeka (Kan.) Capital-Journal, http://www.cjonline.com
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