A Tennessee man was sentenced to prison time years after he fatally shot and beat a man in a crime prosecutors called “really disgusting, actually.”
Marvin Jermane Davis, 51, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon more than five years after he shot and beat 32-year-old Michael Williams. Williams died four months after the incident as a result of the injuries Davis had inflicted upon him.
According to courtroom reporting by the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Assistant District Attorney Jason Demastus told the court that surveillance video captured the whole crime, saying, “[T]he victim, by the video, appeared to be disabled, unable to move his legs, was crawling around grasping at the defendant, and the defendant just continued striking him with the barrel of the gun. There was no hesitation. He kept firing until he achieved the result that he wanted.”…