A 20-year-old man was sentenced to 55 years in prison for his role in the fatal shootings of two Flagler Palm Coast High School students two years ago in Bunnell.
Devandre Williams shot and killed Keymarion Hall on May 3, 2022, according to court records.
In the other case, Williams was driving the car from which two other men fired guns, killing Noah Smith, Jan. 12, 2022, according to records.
Neither Hall nor Smith were the intended targets; both were innocent bystanders. They were 16-year-old students at Flagler Palm Coast High School.
Williams reached a plea agreement with prosecutors which called for him to face between 40 and 60 years for the killings.
Circuit Judge Terence Perkins Wednesday sentenced Williams to 55 years in prison.
Because Williams was 17 at the time of the crimes, he is entitled to have his sentenced reviewed after serving 15 years for Smith’s killing and 25 for Hall’s.
Williams pleaded no contest to two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted second-degree murder in the two cases.
Tyrese Patterson was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder with a firearm in Smith’s killing. Patterson also reached a plea deal to a lesser charge of second-degree murder. Patterson was to be sentenced Wednesday, like Williams, but his sentencing was delayed. He faces between 25 to 50 years in prison.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Florida man sentenced to 55 years in killing of 2 high school students
