On July 29, 2013, prosecutors say, Diara Hood met two men at an Atlanta club and lured them back to a Norcross-area apartment complex “with the promise of sex and drugs.”
One of the men wound up dead, the other knocked unconscious.
On Friday, Hood was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
A Gwinnett County jury convicted Hood, 22 at the time of the incident, on two counts apiece of felony murder, armed robbery and aggravated assault. She did not physically kill 28-year-old Marietta resident Steven Carden or assault 28-year-old Powder Springs resident Thomas Smith, but authorities believe she led them straight to co-defendants Jovian Lanus and Tyler Estrada.
After Hood lured Smith and Carden from Atlanta to the Celadon apartment complex, Lanus and Estrada approached them in the parking lot. Lanus shot Carden in the head, and Smith was knocked unconscious, police said.
“Before police or medics could help, Hood came to the scene and removed cellphones and wallets from the incapacitated victims,” the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.
Hood later admitted to the crime, authorities said.
The status of the cases against Lanus and Estrada was unclear Monday.
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