A third man has been found guilty of murder in the 2010 retaliation killing following a Union City drug deal gone bad.
A Fulton County jury found Taurean Thorpe guilty of felony murder, aggravated assault, conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, conspiracy to sell marijuana, fleeing and attempting to elude police and gun charges in connection with the shooting death of 19-year-old Justin Evans, authorities said.
Evans was shot and killed on June 21, 2010, after he allegedly robbed Thorpe and a friend of drugs they were expecting to sell to Evans, court officials said.
Prosecutors said Thorpe and several others, including Gary Mosley and Paul Hill, hunted Evans back to his Union City apartment complex and opened fire on the teen in his car as he was trying to leave.
Evans was shot in the ankle, but kept driving until he wrecked his car into a parked vehicle, officials said.
Thorpe followed and shot Evans three more times, killing him, prosecutors said.
Thorpe then fled the scene with several other men, leading police on a high-speed chase that ended in College Park.
The men abandoned the car and ran into a wooded area, but police found a receipt in the car with one of the men’s name and address on it, prosecutors said.
Mosley was convicted of murder in April for this case, and was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years, prosecutors said.
Hill pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy for his involvement in the incident and is serving a 10-year sentence, a spokeswoman for the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office said.
Two more men, Darrell Phillips and Santino Butler, await trial, authorities said.
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