‘Less time than she spent on Earth’: Family reacts to sentencing of teens in South City carjacking turned killing

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – The pain has not faded, and for Kay Johnson’s family, it never will.

“What does justice mean?” her sister, Jamie Steil, asked. “Her life is still gone. We can’t get her back ever. All we have are memories now.”

This week, Deshaun Harris, 16, was sentenced to 28 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder and other charges for Johnson’s 2023 killing. Prosecutors say Harris, 15 at the time, fatally shot the 38-year-old mother during a failed carjacking in 2023…

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