The family of a teen said they finally have justice more than five years after their son was murdered.
Two people that the teen called friends were sentenced on murder charges.
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With handcuffs on their wrists, both Jatavious Barnes and Jamarcus Parker learned their sentences Monday after a jury convicted both of them for the murder of 18-year-old Julius Thorne back in 2018 .
Thorne’s family addressed the court before a judge sentenced both Barnes and Parker to life in prison without Parole.
Thorne’s father was full of emotion.
“You all were supposed to be friends. And this is what you do? How he used to feed you. You forgot? You forgot that part?” said Lawrence Thorne.
Channel 2′s Tom Jones first reported on this story back in June 2018.
Police said Barnes and Parker robbed, then shot and killed Thorne at the Maplewood Apartments in Union City. At the time of the robbery, he had roughly $23 in his wallet.
Thorne’s stepmother, Caren Hamilton Thorne, said he was best friends with one of his killers.