The man who shot and killed former public radio executive Charles Starzynski during a daylight robbery outside an East Sacramento tennis club in 2022 will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder, a Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled Friday.
DeSean Leon Brasser Jr., shot Staryzynski at close range Oct. 20, 2022, as he reached into the trunk of his car outside the Sutter Lawn Tennis Club in East Sacramento. Sacramento County prosecutors said Brasser tracked the man from a bank’s automatic teller to the club at 39th and N streets, where he snatched a cash bag and shot Starzynski in the head.
Brasser was arrested hours after the killing. A Sacramento Superior Court jury convicted the 26-year-old Brasser less than a day after his murder trial concluded in March…