Man sentenced for murder
Published 8:25 pm Tuesday, April 7, 2015
A man charged in an April 2013 gunfight that left one woman dead and another injured was sentenced to 38 years to serve in Suffolk Circuit Court last week.
Rasheed Leitiff David, 25, was found guilty in January. He was sentenced on charges of second-degree murder, malicious wounding, discharging a firearm resulting in injury, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and two counts of use of a firearm in commission of a felony.
Several other charges were not prosecuted.
The shooting killed 28-year-old Diana Yvette Jones, who died after several bullets struck the covered porch where she and her friend, Veronica Wiggins-Ingram, 42, were sitting on Hunter Street shortly after 1 a.m. on April 23, 2013. Jones lived across the street.
Wiggins-Ingram suffered injuries to her hand and shoulder from bullets.
According to prosecutor Matthew Glassman, who worked the case with Will Jamerson, the evidence in the case would have shown at trial that a vehicle approached the residence where David was staying with his girlfriend. The occupants of the car held a heated exchange with David before driving down the street.
“He pulled out two firearms and started shooting at the occupants of the vehicle,” Glassman said. Witnesses also would have testified that David reloaded one of the firearms.
Jones’ family members testified during Friday’s hearing about how losing her has affected them, Glassman said.
Wiggins-Ingram also testified.
“She’s still in constant pain,” Glassman said. She testified she had to quit one of her jobs because “she’s not physically able to do it anymore.”
Glassman noted that the judge exceeded the high end of the sentencing guidelines, which was 27 years.