Houston County District Attorney Russ Goodman said he made the deal at the request of shooting victim Breunia Jenning’s mother, Lakesia Reaves.
“She was at peace and wanted this to happen,” he said of the bargain that sent Townes to serve a 15-year sentence.“It’s been five-and-a-half years that I have dwelled on this, cried a million nights, prayed a million nights,” Reaves told News4 after she left the courtroom.
Police charged Townes in March 2018 with shooting the 23-year-old Jennings, who had stolen her car that night.Houston County Assistant District Attorney Seth Brooks told jurors in opening arguments that Townes used his cell phone to locate his vehicle after meeting with a controversial Dothan pastor who gave him and two others a ride to track down his car.For Townes, the deal means a few years locked up when he would have received life without parole if convicted of Capital Murder.
“We don’t know what the outcome of the case would have been,” said defense attorney Adam Parker of his endorsement of the plea agreement. “I think it was anybody’s case and up in the air.”Reaves said she believed the jury would have returned a manslaughter conviction had it deliberated.Breunia Jennings was 23-years-old who her mother described as a “very smart child.” Standing beside Goodman, she praised how he handled the case as Reaves remembered her daughter.
The pastor who gave Townes a ride to search for his car, Kenneth Glasgow, was cleared by grand jurors but is serving time on unrelated charges.
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