Brown to serve 55 years in prison for role in car jacking, attempted murder
Published 7:37 pm Friday, April 6, 2018
- Christopher Brown
One of two men accused of shooting a man and stealing his car from the Blackburn Motor Co. parking lot in March 2016 has been sentenced to 55 years in prison.
Vicksburg police Sgt. Johnnie Edwards said Circuit Judge M. James Chaney on Friday sentenced Christopher Brown, 27, to 65 years in prison with 55 to serve.
A Warren County jury in March found Brown guilty of attempted murder and armed car jacking.
Brown and another inmate, Christopher Livingston, escaped from the Hinds County Restitution Center in March of 2016 and made their way to Vicksburg prior to shooting a man and stealing his car from the Blackburn parking lot March 5, 2016.
In other cases:
• Ladarius Butler, 21, was sentenced to 10 years in prison with three to serve and placed on five years’ post-release supervision after pleading guilty to possession of contraband in a jail.
Butler smuggled a cell phone and SIM card into the Warren County Jail and used it to film and broadcast a Dec. 27 fight in the jail when Denzell Watts was attacked by multiple inmates in their shared cellblock.
• Derrie Laddell Warren, 43, 691 Belva Drive, was sentenced to 12 years in prison with four years to serve and placed on four years’ post-release supervision after pleading guilty to aggravated domestic violence in which he hit his wife in the face with a closed fist and forced her to get medical help during an incident that occurred in June 2016.
He was also ordered to pay $3,084.50 in restitution, fines, fees and court costs.
• Carolyn Mansfield, 43, was sentenced to five years in prison with 11 days to serve and five years’ post-release supervision after pleading guilty to third-offense domestic violence.
She was also ordered to pay $1,584.50 in fines, fees and court costs.
• Linda Girault, 48, was sentenced to two years in prison and one year of post-release supervision after pleading guilty to possession of methamphetamine. She was also ordered to pay $1,884.50 in fines, fees and court costs.
• Percy James Smith, 56, received a suspended 10-year sentence and placed on five years’ supervised probation after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
• Demarcus Rashad Patton, 20, was placed on five years’ probation after pleading guilty to burglary and ordered to pay $2,084.50 in fines fees and court costs.