Two Atlanta gang members are headed to prison for life plus 60 years for robbing a local drug dealer and shooting him to death in front of his 11-year-old daughter, officials say.
Andreas Perkins, 20, and Jamal Chandler, 30, were convicted Tuesday of murdering Randy Menefee Jan. 26, 2014, Fulton County District Attorney’s Office spokesman Dontaye Carter said.
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Four men wore masks and barged into Menefee's Allen Hill apartment, located off Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in northwest Atlanta, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported.
After shooting the 35-year-old father in the chest and left arm, Perkins and Chandler made off with $136, Carter said.
Chandler was charged with murder two days later. Perkins was arrested Feb. 11, 2014, according to jail records.
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