The last words 4-year-old Suni Bell cried out were for her mother, moments before a barrage of bullets tore through her family’s car.
On Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2025, five men, Zvante Sampson, Quandarious Hammond, Jaylin Bedward, Andrew Thompson, and James Denson, were each sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for her killing, a crime that left Tampa shaken and a family forever broken.
The men were convicted in September of first-degree murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and shooting into a vehicle for the deadly ambush that claimed Suni’s life on Sept. 17, 2021…