Man sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for killing 5-year-old boy as he rode bicycle with siblings.
Man sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for killing 5-year-old boy as he rode bicycle with siblings . A North Carolina man accused of shooting and killing a 5-year-old boy in an unprovoked attack will serve the rest of his life in a U.S. prison without parole. Darius Sessoms, 25, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Thursday December 29, at the Wilson County Courthouse for the August 2020 shooting of 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant in a case that a judge ruled in October would be tried as a capital murder case that brought a possible death sentence. "There wasn't anything between me and him, any bad blood whatsoever, for him to have a reason to do this," Austin Hinnant said after the murder. "I have no idea why he did what he did," Hinnant added. "It was literally out of nowhere. He puts a gun to my son’s head and shoots him." Sessoms’ parents said they believe their son was on drugs and having hallucinations at the time of ...