MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man who carjacked a WREG photographer at a gas station last June pleaded guilty and was sentenced Wednesday.
Lashunaye Railford agreed to an eight-year sentence that involves one year in custody, then seven years of intensive in-patient treatment at a facility called Harbor House, according to a prosecutor with the district attorney’s office.
Suspect wanted after WREG reporter carjacked at gunpoint in Memphis
Last June 10, Railford brandished a gun as he demanded a WREG vehicle filled with equipment from photographer Mike Suriani while he was on assignment.
Suriani was filling up the vehicle at the Mobil gas station on E.H. Crump Boulevard and Third Street about a mile from the station around 10:30 a.m. He was unhurt.
Man accused of carjacking WREG reporter arrested
Railford was found later in the Toyota RAV4 in the 1700 block of South Orleans Street and taken into custody…