Two Bloods gang members face sentencing Tuesday in DeKalb County for luring a friend to her death because she was the witness to a crime, the DeKalb District Attorney office announced Monday.
Kemontay Cullins was found guilty at trial of murder and gang-membership charges in the death of Alexis Malone, 17. Kayla Dixon entered into a plea bargain for voluntary manslaughter and gang charges, said Erik Burton, spokesman for the DA.
The case has its roots in a fight that grew out of a boxing match party near Stone Mountain last year. In May Superior Court Judge Gail Flake sentenced Oslushla Smith to life plus 40 years for murdering Malone and Michael Phillips, 29.
Malone had gotten into a fight with another woman at a Stone Mountain apartment complex on May 3, 2014 at a party to watch a Floyd Mayweather championship fight. Smith and fellow Bloods assisted Malone.
Days after the killing, Smith became concerned that Malone might tell police that she saw him shoot Phillips. Dixon was accused of luring Malone to her death by driving her to a park where Smith and his cohorts shot her several times and hit her in the face with a brick, according to charges read out in magistrate court.
The Malone killing ended up prompting more killing, authorities said. Police blamed it for a retaliatory home invasion and the point-blank shootings that left a 9-month-old baby dead and three women “critically injured.”
James announced last September he was seeking the death penalty in that home invasion on To Lani Farm Road that left the baby, KenDarious Edwards, dead.
A fourth defendant, Cutrez Johnson, who was 16 at the time of the killings, pleaded guilty to reduced charges previously and was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison of a 20-year sentence, Burton said.
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