{"id":41113,"date":"2022-09-19T14:39:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T18:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=41113"},"modified":"2022-09-19T14:41:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T18:41:23","slug":"drug-rich-gang-member-gets-life-without-parole-for-murder-of-19-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=41113","title":{"rendered":"‘Drug Rich’ gang member gets life without parole for murder of 19-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A member of\u00a0the notorious \u201cDrug Rich\u201d hybrid criminal street gang originating from Stone Mountain<\/a> has been sentenced to life without parole plus 45-years in prison after being convicted of murder and related charges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the DeKalb County<\/a> District Attorney’s office, 26-year-old William Moore-Earvin learned his fate during\u00a0a sentencing hearing before DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gregory A. Adams on Sept. 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeKalb County jurors returned guilty verdicts against Moore-Earvin in late August on charges of murder, felony murder (three counts,) armed robbery (two counts,)\u00a0aggravated assault, and weapons offenses in connection with the shooting death of 19-year-old Andrew Miller.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incident happened on July 6, 2020, at the Ashland Pine apartment complex on Walden Walk Circle in Stone Mountain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeKalb police officers responded to the\u00a0location on a \u201cperson shot\u201d call. Upon arrival, they found Miller on the ground suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. He was unresponsive. Emergency personnel attempted to render aid, but Miller died of his injuries at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the investigation, the victim and a friend were at the location to purchase a handgun from the Moore-Earvin and to sell a rifle to him.\u00a0After a brief meeting in the breezeway with Moore-Earvin and two other men who were with him, Miller returned to his car to retrieve the weapon he was selling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to prosecutors, Miller fired several demonstration shots into a tree before the weapon jammed.\u00a0At that point, Moore-Earvin turned his gun on Miller and his friend and ordered them to \u201cgive it up.\u201d Moore-Earvin then shot Miller in the chest. All three suspects then held the victim\u2019s friend at gunpoint, before stealing his phone\u00a0and escaping in Miller\u2019s white Toyota Corolla.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A search of the suspects\u2019 social media records revealed videos of the trio celebrating at Moore-Earvin\u2019s apartment hours after the shooting. The\u00a0victim\u2019s gun, stolen from the scene, was spotted on the floor of the Moore-Earvin’s apartment in one of the videos posted on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moore-Earvin was arrested on murder charges ten days after the crime. The victim\u2019s car was located in plain view in front of the Moore-Earvin’s apartment complex\u00a0at the time of his arrest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-defendants Emmanuel \u201cManny\u201d Dawson and Arthur \u201cFazo\u201d Harriet were arrested a short time later for their roles in the crime. They are both currently awaiting trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=10]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A member of\u00a0the notorious \u201cDrug Rich\u201d hybrid criminal street gang originating from Stone Mountain has been sentenced to life without parole plus 45-years in prison after being convicted of murder and related charges. According to the DeKalb County District Attorney’s office, 26-year-old William Moore-Earvin learned his fate during\u00a0a sentencing hearing before DeKalb County Superior Court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8487,8914],"class_list":["post-41113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-dekalb-county","tag-stone-mountain","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}