Judge Julie Gatti decried Slade and co-defendant Joshua M. Carter’s “lack of respect for human life” and the fact they damaged their own and their families’ lives.
Christopher Slade’s co-defendant, Joshua M. Carter, who fired the fatal shots, was convicted by a jury in August of first-degree felony murder and sentenced in September to life without parole.
A Macomb County jury convicted Joshua Malik Carter in the death of Talal Shamo in March 2022 in the parking lot of a Marathon gas station at Ryan and Nine Mile roads following a four-day trial and four to five hours of deliberations over two days in circuit court.