A Florida man was recently sentenced for the murder of a 16-year-old.
State Attorney Melissa Nelson announced the Honorable Meredith Charbula sentenced Colton Moore to 45 years in Florida State Prison followed by five years of probation for the 2023 murder of Derek Pitts Jr.
On December 29, 2023, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office responded to an Old St. Augustine Road apartment complex after receiving calls about someone being shot.
They found 16-year-old Pitts in the parking lot with a gunshot wound to his chest; he was transported to the hospital but died from his injury…