A man was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years for shooting three people in the face after drug deals.
Javon Fortune, 32, pleaded guilty to murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.
Fortune also pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
The charges stem from three separate shootings, in which the .22-caliber handgun used was linked to Fortune, authorities said.
In the first shooting on July 20, 2015, 23-year-old Reginald Phillips was found unconscious with a gunshot to the face near Lawton Avenue and Lee Street.
He was sitting in the driver’s seat of his vehicle on nearby railroad tracks, said spokesman Dontaye Carter of the district attorney’s office.
Phillips died the next day.
Two days later, two men were shot in the face four miles apart. Both survived the shootings. One was found on Collier Drive in northwest Atlanta, Carter said.
In all three incidents, the shooter had left the scene by the time officers arrived.
But during the investigation, detectives uncovered phone records linking Fortune to all three shootings.
The records placed him at the Collier Drive home and the scene of the second shooting. They also revealed Fortune was the last person Phillips spoke with on the night of his murder, Carter said.
Authorities discovered the shootings were drug related after Fortune left his ID during another drug deal with a man at Club Aquarius in southwest Atlanta. Fortune had planned to sell 2 pounds of marijuana, Carter said.
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