Shooter in teen’s death gets 25 years

Published 11:30 am Wednesday, October 22, 2014

A Vicksburg teen will spend more than 20 years in prison for the shooting death of a Vicksburg High School student.

Romaire Brown, 17, pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder in the 2013 shooting death of 17-year-old Ke’Marvin Stamps.

Circuit Judge M. James Chaney sentenced Brown to 25 years in prison.

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Brown was one of seven suspects initially charged with murder in Ke’Marvin’s death, and he is the sixth to plead guilty.

DeMario Mixon, Melvin Wiggins, Tyler Jones, Christopher Jones and Devontae Montgomery were all sentenced to five years in prison for accessory after the fact to second-degree murder. Mixon also received an additional five years for drive-by shooting in a separate case.

Only the case against Marquis Black, who also fired at Ke’Marvin, remains open, District Attorney Ricky Smith said.

The seven defendants were all riding in Wiggin’s truck on March 15, 2013, when they initially went to Autumn Oaks Townhouses, 4920 Halls Ferry Road, with four guns in a planned retaliation for a drive-by shooting at Mixon’s home on Locust Street.

At the townhouses, they were in an altercation with another group of teens in a truck, but no one was injured.

Wiggins drove south on Halls Ferry Road before turning north on Greenbriar Drive and east on Gibson Road.

In the 4900 block of Gibson Road, the group saw Ke’Marvin and his brother walking, and one of the teens yelled to open fire.

Sheriff’s department records indicate that none of the seven teens in the truck knew Ke’Marvin.

Brown and Black opened fire and a .22-caliber bullet fired by Brown struck Ke’Marvin in the head. Black fired a .40-caliber pistol, and initially confessed to the killing, according to court records. A 40-caliber bullet was found embedded in a tree behind where Ke’Marvin fell.