A man who was convicted of murder earlier this week in connection with a deadly shooting at the South Shore Plaza in Braintree in 2022 learned his fate Thursday.
Julius Hammond-Desir, of Maynard, who was 19 at the time of the shooting, was sentenced in Dedham’s Norfolk Superior Court to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years for the killing of 26-year-old Dijoun Beasley, of Boston, on Jan. 22, 2022.
“This is a very sad case. This was a killing of Dijoun Beasley, who had many people who loved him and cared for him,” the judge told the court before handing down Hammond-Desir’s sentence. “I know very little about what transpired between the two men or why what transpired, transpired. The evidence at the trial didn’t have much to say about that.”
The judge added, “This was a case that was very much affected by a lack of impulse control. Carrying a firearm into a mall when you’re going shopping when you have no intention or idea that you’re going to meet anybody who is an enemy or an adversary, or someone who is going to pose a risk, is simply bad judgment.”