OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY) — A Palmetto man was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing two people in 2020, according to St. Landry Parish District Attorney Chad Pitre.
Sanplice Christopher Simien, 48, of Palmetto, was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor without probation, parole or suspension of sentence for killing Michael Thomas and Ladarious Keller in St. Landry Parish on Oct. 5, 2020.
Simien was convicted in the 27th Judicial District Court in March of two counts of first degree murder, and previously found guilty of three counts of attempted first degree murder in connection with the same incident…