Girl, 16, Gets Life Term
Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —
A judge sentenced a 16-year-old girl to life in prison without parole Friday for murdering her grandfather and aunt and trying to kill her grandmother and sister.
Ashley Jones was convicted in March. She could not be sentenced to death because she was 14 at the time of the 1999 killings.
Jones’ 78-year-old grandfather, Deroy C. Nalls, died after being shot, stabbed and set afire. Her aunt, Millie Nalls, 30, was shot and stabbed to death.
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