Man found guilty in 2017 murders of mother, son inside Nashville apartment
A jury found a Nashville man guilty Friday on seven charges in a 2017 double homicide case at an Edgehill apartment complex.
Albert Mustapha, 26, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder, one count of aggravated burglary, especially aggravated robbery and felony possession of a weapon in the July 2017 shooting of a mother and her son.
Mustapha was convicted last year in Murfreesboro on another count of First Degree Murder.
Automatic life sentences were imposed against Mustapha after his Nashville conviction. A sentencing hearing is scheduled in March to determine if any of the counts will be served consecutively.
"In conjunction with his Murfreesboro case, Mr. Mustapha could be sentenced to close to 180–200 years if counts are imposed consecutively," a spokesperson with the Nashville District Attorney's Office said in a statement via email Monday.
Osmani Munongerwa and his mother Isha Musa were shot multiple times inside their home July 22, 2017.
Musa left Kenya 20 years before her son was born. She was preparing to take her American citizenship exam.
The district attorney's office said Musa was fatally shot at the foot of first floor stairs while Munongerwa was found shot in his upstairs bedroom.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Nashville jury finds man guilty in 2017 murder of mother, son
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