A Starkville man convicted of a 2010 murder after a graduation party was sentenced to 40 years in prison last week.
Dennis Thompson, 22, was convicted in Oktibbeha Circuit Court of fatally shooting 25-year-old Curtis “C.K.” Randle following a graduation party in May 2010. The incident occurred near Club 124 on D.L. Conner Drive inside the Starkville city limits.
On Oct. 31, Thompson was convicted of one count of second degree murder and three counts of felony aggravated assault for wounding three people during the incident.
On Thursday, Thompson was sentenced to 30 years with the Mississippi Department of Corrections for the murder charge, according to Assistant District Attorney Lindsay Clemons.
Thompson received five years for the aggravated assault charge against victim Tony Harris, five years for the aggravated assault charge against Devierre Outlaw, both to run consecutive with the 30-year sentence. Thompson was then sentenced to 20 years for the aggravated assault charge on Azaria Ross. That sentence is to run concurrent with the other sentences, Clemons said.
Thompson is also charged with aggravated assault for his role in a November 2012 shooting in a Starkville trailer park that left one man injured.
Sarah Fowler covered crime, education and community related events for The Dispatch.
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