VIDEO: Detroit man pleads guilty to murdering 2 women in Charleston in October 2021
KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — A Detroit man on Monday was sentenced in connection to the killing of two women in Charleston back in October 2021, family members of the victims told 13 News.
They said Marquis Goodman, 24, of Detroit, was sentenced to a total of 80 years in prison.
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Goodman pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in February 2024 . Before that, he pleaded not guilty to murdering Bria White and Kytiana Belcher on Charleston’s West Side.
Court documents said that Charleston police officers responded to the 300 block of Hunt Avenue on Charleston’s West Side on Oct. 8, 2021, at around 1:30 a.m. due to a complaint of gunshots in the area.
Once on scene, officers found a woman, identified as White, lying unresponsive in the entryway to Given’s Crankshaft. She had suffered numerous gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead on the scene.