Fight over a CD leads to life in prison
A compact disc cost two people their lives.
Mohamed Turay died in 2007 after he was stabbed in the neck. His assailant, Mahamadou Tunkara, planted a knife there after a fighting with Turay over a CD, according to Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard.
A Fulton jury convicted Tunkara Friday of murder and assault, and Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall then sentenced him to life in prison, Howard's office announced.
The scuffle happened in March 2007, in the parking lot of the Sene Gambia restaurant on Campbellton Road. Tunkara and Turay got into an argument that escalated into a fistfight.
After witnesses broke up the fight, they urged Turay to get into his car and go home. Meanwhile, Tunkara went into his family's market next to the restaurant, and came back with a steak knife, which he thrust into Turay as Turay climbed into his car.
Witnesses subdued Tunkara until police arrived. Turay died a week later at Grady Memorial Hospital.
There was no word Friday on what the CD contained.
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