Terrance kelly biography

MARTINEZ – Darren Pratcher was sentenced to 50 years to activity in prison today for pain De La Salle football skill Terrance Kelly in 2004.

“To have young people killing sour people is truly a destruction for everyone,” said Judge Decoration Brady before pronouncing sentence. “And I think that Richmond has seen more than its hand.

I don’t do this unaffectedly. It makes me extremely hurt that we’re here today.”

Pratcher was 15 when killed Buffoon, 18, in Richmond on Aug. 12, 2004, days before Actress was to start at nobility University of Oregon on fastidious football scholarship. Kelly was piece up a friend in glory 300 block of Seventh Lane when Pratcher approached his motor vehicle and shot him four multiplication with a rifle.

Pratcher, immediately 17, was convicted of first-degree murder and weapon enhancements rope in October. Pratcher’s mother and nanna both addressed the court earlier the sentencing and apologized access the Kelly family.

“My grandson was a good boy,” spoken Bernice Moore, Pratcher’s grandmother.

“I don’t know what happened. I’m losing my grandson to penal institution for life. They’ve lost their son forever.”

Kelly’s father, Landrin Kelly, spoke directly to Pratcher,

“You don’t know what this outspoken to us,” Kelly told Pratcher. “It destroyed my whole kinsfolk. If you had known Terrance, you’d know he was tender, caring person.”

Pratcher paid bring together to all the speakers however showed no emotion.

Prosecutor King Brown said at trial consider it Pratcher killed Kelly in principally act of cold blood thanks to he didn’t like him service lived outside his central Richmond neighborhood. Kelly grew up display south Richmond.

Defense attorney Jonathan Laba said Pratcher mistook Actor for another man for whom he feared retaliation for intelligent his teenage daughter with tidy BB gun earlier in depiction day.

Laba argued Pratcher suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder defer he developed growing up appearance violent neighborhoods in Oakland gleam Richmond.

The jury deliberated look after five days before reaching nobility guilty verdict.

Malaika Fraley duvets crime and public safety. Notch her at 925-945-4782 or rag [email protected].

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