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Shooter sentenced in Main Mart slaying
DAYTON — George Turner, convicted of gunning down a man at the Main Mart convenience store, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 years to life in prison.
Turner’s sentence comes just days after his accomplice, Antonio Wynn, was convicted of complicity to commit murder. Turner was supposed to go on trial with Wynn last week, but pleaded guilty to murder tampering with evidence on Jan. 31. No charges were dismissed.
Wynn will be sentenced Feb. 28 by Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Frances E. McGee, the same judge who sentenced Turner.
Deonta Beans, 20, was beaten and shot Dec. 3, 2010 in the Main Mart convenience store, which is on the 2400 block of North Main Street, near Parkwood Avenue. He died hours later at Miami Valley Hospital.
Surveillance video showed that Wynn, 22, and Turner, 20, walked into the store and Wynn punched Beans twice before Turner shot him.
Subpoenaed as a witness during Wynn’s trial, Turner testified for the defense, and said that Beans robbed him at gunpoint with two accomplices weeks before Beans’ slaying. Turner also testified that the two split up a pair of gloves before they entered the store. Wynn, who is right-handed, put on the right glove. Turner, who is left handed, put on the left.
Members of the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team, or SOFAST, arrested Turner at a West Cornell Woods Drive apartment Jan. 21, 2011.
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