Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter, who noted that citizens are “living in a war zone,” sentenced Muse to life without parole; the other three were given life sentences.

Gang Unit Deputy District Attorney Adriane Love said Muse deserved a harsher sentence because he’d been the “most callous” by advancing on Clements’s car, seeking more ammunition shortly after the murder and telling co-conspirators that he killed Clements.

Muse addressed the room before the sentences were handed down, referencing Bible verses and suggesting he didn’t commit “the horrific offense.” Baxter interrupted him.

“Your point is you’re telling me you’re a good person?” he asked.

“Yes,” Muse said.

Muse also claimed he had nothing to do with the murder.

Tequila Denae Forehand, Jujuane Harris, Durrell Marco Muse and Darious Harris (clockwise from top left)

Love hopes the sentences will lend some “peace of mind” to citizens of zone 4, she later told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

A few family members also addressed the room, at times fighting back tears or anger.

His brother, Phillips, said Clements was the kind of person who’d give the shirt off his back. He then put down his notes to “speak from the heart,” and talked about how Clements had gotten Phillips involved with spiritual miming at church.

Clements’s mother told the guilty four that their families can visit them in jail, but she can only visit her son at a gravesite.

“I hope they never, ever get out,” she said.

And an aunt said while she doesn’t believe in the death penalty, she hopes the defendants have plenty of time to “sit and think about every bullet.”

Another man involved in the shooting, Frederick Rosenau, will be tried on a separate date and remains in jail on an unrelated murder, the district attorney’s office said.

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