LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A jury found a Pulaski County Regional Detention Center inmate guilty in the murder of two Pulaski County teenagers in 2023.
The jury’s finding led to 26-year-old Devontea Clay receiving two 50-year sentences with an additional 10 years each for firearms enhancement sentences. The court ruled that the sentences must be served consecutively, one after the other, giving Clay a 120-year sentence.
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Clay was arrested on July 15, 2024, at the detention center, where he is being held on unrelated charges.
Clay was named after an investigation by the Arkansas State Police’s Criminal Investigation Division into the shooting deaths of 19-year-old LaMarion Gilliams of North Little Rock and 16-year-old Sucram O’Donald of Little Rock on May 23, 2023, an ASP spokesperson said. Their bodies were found near Arkansas Highway 161, south of Scott in Pulaski County.
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According to an ASP spokesperson, Clay faces pending criminal charges in five other jurisdictions along the Interstate 40 corridor across Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee. The charges include first-degree battery, multiple counts of aggravated robbery, as well as additional firearm and drug offenses, they said…