Atlanta Woman Sheree Murphy Receives 5 Life Sentences For Ga. Motel Fire
A woman has received five life sentences for a 2007 fire at a Riverdale motel where five family members died.
The Atlanta Joual-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/A9AdvQ ) that 45-year-old Sheree Murphy was found guilty by a jury in December of felony murder, arson and aggravated battery in the fire at the Budget Inn Motel in Riverdale. She was acquitted of malice murder.
Killed in the fire were 26-year-old Fred Colston, his 32-year-old girlfriend, Shikita Jones and two of her three children. Jones' uncle, Melvin Jones, also was killed in the fire and 10 people were injured.
Murphy lived at the motel at the time of the June 2007 fire. Prosecutors initially sought the death penalty but a deal was struck in which her attoeys opted for the possibility of life without parole.
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