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North Side shooting death brings 25-year prison sentence

The shooting death of a 19-year-old man in 2019 that was spurred by a simmering conflict led to a 25-year prison sentence Thursday for the man who shot him. Dane County Circuit Judge Josann Reynolds said Larence G. Thomas, 38, should have had the maturity to step back from the conflict between Malik Moss and members of Thomas’ family, not impulsively shoot Moss several times in September 2019 in a parking lot outside the Ridgecrest Apartments on Madison’s North Side “You were the adult,” Reynolds said. “You had the ability to make so many different choices.” Thomas DANE COUNTY SHERIFF S OFFICE Thomas, who was originally charged with first-degree intentional homicide, pleaded guilty in October to second-degree intentional homicide as part of a plea agreement, avoiding a potential life sentence had he been convicted of the more serious charge.

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170401:22:58:00

they re concerned about their safety for their children just like anybody else would. but they have different layers of trauma that they have to deal with to just even experience everyday life. so when we think of them as thugs and gang bangers doing all kind of wild activity and violent, that is not the people who i m seeing every day. the folks i see when i go in, everyday people who want access to a good life just like anybody else. you add to that, chris, the great weight of the trauma, how it manifests itself, in anxiety, anger, in depression, especially in young people whose brains are still forming. you talk to researchers and scientists and they say repeated exposure to violence makes you in a constant state of the fight or flight. nakia williams daughter was shot and killed in the parking

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170401:22:57:00

people and bad things are supposed to happen to bad people in bad neighborhoods. we tend to think of raw numbers and we do it in chicago and across the country. how many have been shot, how many have been killed? but when you spend time in a community that is gun weary, a family who has lost a loved one to gun violence, you realize that our calculation, that our math is way off. in speaking to nakia williams and the campbell family, it s clear that there s a deep hole in them. a piece that will never be filled. so those outside who think they are gang bangers and thugs and all of these epithets we use to describe folks in these neighborhoods, there s still something missing. deshawn hill who works with chicago survivors, she framed it up perfectly. let s take a listen to what she has to say. these are everyday people who are waking up just like me and you every morning trying to survive, going to work, taking care of their families, you know.

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