Teen will spend over a decade in prison after fatal shooting, attempted robbery in Winston-Salem
Saveonne Deshawn Gist, 18, pled guilty in Forsyth County Superior Court to second-degree murder.
Woman dies after Winston-Salem crash, man pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter
The defendant was initially charged as a juvenile, but the case was transferred to adult court for prosecution.
On Sept. 14, 2021, officers with the Winston-Salem Police Department responded to Ferrell Court in the Rolling Hills Apartments complex in response to a shooting and found 27-year-old Charles Edward Anderson Jr. inside the apartment unresponsive with one gunshot wound.
The state's evidence showed that on the afternoon of Sept. 14, 2021, three people with handguns who were wearing masks rushed into Anderson's mother's home.
Evidence showed that the three tried to rob Anderson. After Anderson tried to defend himself and his family by fighting Gist, another intruder fatally shot him.
The three then left the home.
Video surveillance footage from the apartment complex showed Gist and the two other men running away from the apartment after the shooting.
After the shooting, investigators discovered that one of the three men had posted a Snapchat story about an hour before the shooting, showing Gist and his co-defendants with handguns and wearing the same clothes as seen on the surveillance video after the shooting.
Gist was sentenced to 168 to 214 months in the North Carolina Department ofCorrections.
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